What if it is not what you say, but rather was the actual event of many saints who had lived under the OC, and were literally resurrected into the likeness of Jesus' resurrection and Immortality?
Such an event at that time, is not in the mind of "church-ianity", because the words: "the first resurrection", is only seen by them as being still in the future only, and therefore
cannot take place at any other time.
However, for scripture to say that Jesus is "the firstborn from the dead", is to
literally say that
Jesus Himself is "the First resurrection".
So then, by the words of Rev. 20[
6] "Blessed and holy is he that
hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power",....
can only be effectual when a person is "
born again" from above of God's Holy Spirit,
while they still have breath. It is then that "the second death" is made void in a believers life.
So then, to be "born again" of God's Holy Spirit, is to
have taken part in the first resurrection, who is Christ.
I refer you back to my post #457 and 459
Col.2[
12] Buried with him in baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Col.3[
1]
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.