Spirits Resting In The Grave?

The Bible says at the Rapture, upon Jesus return the dead will arrise first and then those of us that are saved and still living at that time will be raised next. Does this mean that our ancesters spirits are presently at rest in the grave?

Q. The Bible says at the Rapture, upon Jesus return the dead will arise first and then those of us that are saved and still living at that time will be raised next. Does this mean that our ancestors spirits are presently at rest in the grave?

A. No. If they’re believers and died since the cross, their spirits have been with the Lord in Heaven (2 Cor 5:7). By the dead rising first Paul meant that their spirits are re-joined at the rapture with new resurrection bodies. Immediately thereafter we who are still alive are given our new bodies, changed in the twinkling of an eye as Paul wrote in 1 Cor. 15:51-52, without passing through death.