Bobservations' Column - "A Great Cloud"

To the Hebrews that the writer addresses in this Epistle, Chapter 11 serves as a reminder of their history, and to God’s faithfulness to them, through each individual listed in the text. And today in Chapter 12, those Heroes of Faith have become a great cloud of witnesses. Each of the names listed in the last chapter are familiar to every Jew, their stories fill the Old Testament, indeed their stories are the Old Testament: the battles, the successes, the failures, the victories and the defeats. And still, God has exhibited a faithful, gentle leading to the Promised Land that they inhabit today. . .