I’m not satisfied with that idea, because Jesus was to be in the tomb for 3 days. He didn’t say He would be resurrected immediately. Lazarus was resurrected before that time, as we’re others, so there are already more resurrections than you allow for.
Plus, Paul was definitely speaking to those in the church age when he wrote 1 Thess 4:
1 Thessalonians 4:15 (KJV) For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that *we* which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
Jesus had 6 parts to who He was. Jesus was fully God, the Son, and His Spirit. Yes the Holy Spirit. Jesus has a body of flesh, a soul, and his earthly spirit. Jesus was not separated from who he was as God, nor as man. The earthly body was in the tomb. At death, everything happened at the same point in time. The only thing left on the cross was the body of flesh. Though not of sin, or by sin, it still would just disappear in the tomb. Jesus' soul, God, and Holy Spirit were back in heaven and Paradise was opened. The thief met Jesus upon his death a few hours later in Paradise. Jesus Christ as spirit did go to Abraham's bosom and immediately freed all in Abraham's bosom.
It was a ghost like body or what a soul would look like in an intangible form. It was not physical, but you could still identify who the soul was. It would be the same as when Saul requested the witch to bring Samuel out of the dead. They saw a Samuel, but no physical body.
Now about Acts 2. Peter claimed to know that David was a literal person in a tomb. It was all destroyed in 70AD. The point was not that David did not ascend. The point was that David did not ascend when David died. Peter and the disciples were not given the details, nor did any one go back and change Peter's speech. If they did change it, then Peter would have declared the OT saints had ascended. In fact, Matthew was the only record of the event. Matthew 27:51-54
51 At that moment the
parokhet in the Temple was ripped in two from top to bottom; and there was an earthquake, with rocks splitting apart.
52 Also the graves were opened, and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life;
53 and after Yeshua rose, they came out of the graves and went into the holy city, where many people saw them.
Matthew claims they came out when Jesus died and rose at the same time. It was the spirit, because this same spirit met Mary at the tomb, and a few others who did not really recognize him, because they were spiritually blinded, until God allowed them to see. He told Mary that Sunday morning, that He had not yet ascended. The reason was they had to wait for the end of the 3.5 days. No one was given permission to write that all OT Saints ascended at that time. Peter gave his speech. Luke recorded it to the best of what was remembered. The Holy Spirit did not correct Peter's point. If Peter did actually say that all the OT saints had ascended, the Holy Spirit did not allow it to be put in Acts. If it was changed later, it still would have kept the fact on a need to know basis. Paul explains, 1 Corinthians 15:22-28
22 For just as in connection with Adam all die, so in connection with the Messiah all will be made alive.
23 But each in his own order: the Messiah is the firstfruits;
then those who belong to the Messiah, at the time of his coming;
24 then the culmination, when he hands over the Kingdom to God the Father, after having put an end to every rulership, yes, to every authority and power.
25 For he has to rule until he puts all his enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy to be done away with will be death,
27 for
“He put everything in subjection under his feet.” But when it says that
“everything” has been subjected, obviously the word does not include God, who is himself the one subjecting everything to the Messiah.
28 Now when everything has been subjected to the Son, then he will subject himself to God, who subjected everything to him; so that God may be everything in everyone.
Paul was correcting the notion that no resurrection could happen, but also explains that one did happen. The common interpretation of "at his coming" is future, but that is not what Paul said. He was referring to the time Jesus was just on earth. The firstfruits were the whole of Abraham's bosom. Verse 23 covered the first coming. Verse 24 was the final day of the week of the Second Coming. Paul goes on to explain the end time "resurrection", but what changes in 2 Corinthians 5:6-8?
6 So we are always confident — we know that so long as we are at home in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord;
7 for we live by trust, not by what we see.
8 We are confident, then, and would much prefer to leave our home in the body and come to our home with the Lord.
If Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 15:42-45, why is there a misunderstanding that he had to say the above in 2 Corinthians 5? He likened it to a seed. He likened it to a different body. He said it was the work of a quickening spirit. Why would the soul be left in limbo, there not being an Abraham's bosom. There is not a Christ's bosom in sheol. A new seed, a firstfruit, a fruit, a new body, a ghost, not our spirit yet. This is absent from this body which goes back to dust never to be seen again, it is a New Body, changed by a quickening spirit, but still a soul with a new body, waiting under the alter, for a robe of white, Revelation 6:11
"Each of them was given a white robe; and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow-servants should be reached, of their brothers who would be killed, just as they had been."
Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 said that the robe of white would not happen till the rapture event of live people, not a resurrection of live people. Live people are not physically dead. Those dead in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5, are with their soul under the alter. No resurrection. Saying that they would rise first is still correct. They have been doing that one by one, because, absent from this body is to be present with the Lord. Dying to the flesh is dying for Christ's sake, no matter if it is natural or as martyrs. We are dying for Christ, because we are dying to the flesh as a seed planted in the ground, becomes something new, by a quickening spirit. Just like Jesus' dead human flesh had to decay and go back to dust. It was changed, and Jesus had to wait 3.5 days. But all at that time were given new bodies, because that is what the Atonement allowed. No longer the seed of Adam in the Garden as disobedience, but as the seed of the new Adam quickened by a living spirit of God. It will be completed soon, as now is the time come for the opening of the seals, and the harvest of all souls. The church (those alive) and the culmination will be receiving their glorified bodies (robes of white). This is the end where mortal will once more be an immortal spirit. Body, soul, and spirit will be one in a glorified body.
There will be a final resurrection as Jesus Promised, because some will die in the 1000 year reign. I realize that some limit all humanity to one final resurrection, but Paul, and John give way more information than Jesus taught during his earthly ministry. Jesus was explaining to living Jews how Jesus interacted with living Jews. After the 7th seal is opened, the Lamb will be dealing with living Jews directly again. He will have 144K Jewish male disciples this time. The whole world with Jews all over the world, will be covered. Those 3.5 days were very important to the change between the house of Jacob and the church. Now Jesus the Lamb will have to work in reverse between an apostate "name only" religious group left behind from the church and the harvest of sheep and goats, wheat and tares. Guess who will be the Sadducees and Pharisees now?
NE WAS In hell or Abraham's bosom. Abraham's bosom was not Paradise. N