testimony in the wilderness generation failed to mix the gospel they heard with faith (Heb 4:2; cf. 3:13, 19) and therefore failed to enter into the parabolic portrayal of the eschatological blessing (see Heb 9:9 and 11:19), then it follows that those who did believe the divine, oath-bound testimony (Heb 6:13–17) were, by faith, apprehending the substance of the future eschatological realities promised by God, a hope which he “set before them” (Heb 6:18; cf. 12:2). To establish