Notice that these men of faith would not have regarded their deaths in the flames to be a failure of faith but rather an indication of God’s will. By faith the flames may be quenched, but in that same faith “others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection…. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword” (Heb. 11:35, 37). Faith means trusting in God and His Word. Faith does not mean that we either know or understand what