This goes against the Bibles teaching about the “dead in Christ shall rise first”. Even Jesus taught death was like a sleep. Sorry, I’ll stick with the Bibles plain teaching rather than someones interpretation of how they would like for it to be.
Jesus demonstrated for all what happens when the flesh body dies. The soul returns to the Maker that sent the soul/spirit. That is what Jesus was telling Nicodemus in John 3. The first requirement to 'see' the Kingdom of God is to be born from 'above', NOT again as some contend.
AND the parable of the man 'rich' with ill gotten gains, saw across the gulf, Lazarus in Abraham's bosom. Now that parable is NOT possible if Abraham's soul is still sleeping.
Peter says that Christ while in the tomb went and preached to the 'spirits' in prison to offer them salvation first. IPeter 3:18-22; 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to those that are dead. that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit....
AND it is NOT a new thing because Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 7 reads Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God Who gave it.
AND When the flesh body of the Adam was formed the flesh was NOT living until the 'breath of life' which means soul/spirit was breathed by God into his nostrils.
All of what I quoted is 'plain' Bible teaching right from the instruction of the Heavenly Father and demonstrated by His only Begotten Son.
But the dead in Christ DID rise first! They were roaming around Jerusalem after the Resurrection of Christ and only the believers could see them. They were waiting for Christ to ascend to heaven.
Even with the good thief — “Christ says, “Today you will be with me in Paradise.” That Paradise is a pleasant or not so pleasant waiting place — depending on the state of one’s soul at the moment of death.