Abraham may have seen his future but he was not saved in his day. And the proof is in the story of Lazurus and the rich man.
Lazurus was not in heaven, but Abraham's bosom. And Abraham was there as well. So was Lazurus saved also - before Jesus having died for his sins and without Lazurus having accepted it?
Doug
methinks your gospel has been made into a formula and an idol, formed from your mind that excludes all the OT Saints of all the ages in all the world from the promise of redemption and restoration back to Paradise, from whence Adam was cast down and out of, at the fall.
You have a basic misunderstanding of what death is, in all its stages, as it is biblically defined for us.
The first death is separation from the Unseen Glory above, which departed from Adam when he disobeyed and became, at that moment, a vain creation, a ruined temple, and useless for the purpose of his creation as a son of God made for the Glory.
Before that death was made an end of by the "Acceptable Atonement" of the Redeemer/Kinsman, those righteous saints who were saved by hope in the promise whose bodies died in that hope, went to wait in Sheol below, in comfort and in rest, in a separate place from the unrighteous
souls who departed and who still wait there for their day of resurrection in their old man
bodies,
minus their Adam spirit, and their judgment. They are then cast into the LAke of Fire, soul in body, forever, minus the Adam spirit, and are then, undying worms who will never be changed/morphosed into the image of the Son of God -it will be too late.
First death is ended for all who receive and all who had received the promise of the redemption by the promised Seed of the Woman, and it ended on the cross. Jesus departed his body and took the sins laid on His soul to Sheol below, dumped them on Azazel, and declared the First Death ended for all the righteous souls who waited in comfort in Sheol, and took them to Paradise above, to await their promised adoption bodies which they will receive at the same time the living saints receive them, at the rapture -except for the
first of firstfruits whom Jesus raised from the dead, in their bodies which came out of their graves at His resurrection, and He ascended with them, mid-morning, to the temple in heaven, to offer them there, before the Glory, with Himself.
But God made exceptions: Enoch did not die and is translated to glory in the New Man body and is in Eden above, and is with the Watcher angels, ruling over them, there.
Elijah has not died, and is in Eden above and is returning to preach, and to be killed, with Moses. Both Enoch and Moses will then be resurrected and regenerated, ascend to glory, and be glorified as all the righteous saints are to be.
Abraham was saved. Abel was saved. Noah was saved. David was saved. Shem was saved. Job was saved. Even Adam was saved by the hope of the promised Seed of the Woman, who would die and make an end of sin, death, and corruption, and restore the dominion which Adam sold into sin, death, and corruption.