I 'think' I'm understanding what you are saying. There are a great deal of people who lived and died before Christ was born, and therefore never had the opportunity to believe upon Him. I thought that Christ visited all who were in 'prison', and gave them a chance to believe in Him, prior to Him returning to earth, being resurrected. There are those who lived in the past, that WERE NOT thrown into prison, and these people followed God's Word, and glorified God. Are these, 'perhaps', the ones making up the 'kings and nations' referred to in Revelation?