that possessed by the readers. The elders had hope in the Messiah to come. That faith was the basis of their approval by God. As stated above, some things can be neither proved nor disproved. Verse 3 shows that faith helps one to accept the truthfulness of those things beyond proof. “Worlds” has been used previously in the letter and means “ages” or “eons.” That expression refers more to time than to material things. The last part of the verse, however, does speak of the material creation. Time was