Had anyone ever been resurrected from the dead before Jesus?
Scripture mandates that no one had ever been resurrected from the dead before Christ. He had to be the first. The graves of the saints who slept were opened after His resurrection, not before, because He had to be the First.
Les teaches that it is an absolute scriptural mandate that no one had ever been resurrected from the dead before Christ. He explains that in Matthew 27 the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints who slept were raised, but this happened after His resurrection, because He had to be the First. The veil in the temple was rent from top to bottom, showing that God opened the way into the Throne Room, but the Jews sewed it back up and continued temple worship into Acts. Yet the resurrection order remains: Christ is first.