No, I don't see how this is possible. The gates of heaven were closed to every person from the time of Adam's sin til Christ's ascension. No person entered heaven until Ascension Thursday, when Christ entered first, as the new-Adam, reversing the sin in the Garden of Eden.
If the Old Testament martyrs (i.e. Maccabees) didn't get into heaven but went to Limbo to wait, then how does the "good thief" get to heaven, when he wasn't even a martyr? Makes no sense.
Why couldn't the OT martyrs and righteous, along with the good thief, be released from limbo into Heaven at the moment Christ died on the cross? The Divine Sacrifice, alone, saves us, so did it not save and release them into Heaven at the moment of His Consummation?
Again, Christ's Divine Naure always remained in Heaven while His Human Nature descended into limbo for three days. The righteous were joined with Christ (His Divine Nature) in Heaven that same day. To me, that makes more sense than having to wait a bunch of days before Christ's Physical Body ascended into Heaven. Even with God's Incarnation in Flesh on earth during those days/weeks before He ascended, He was also in Heaven. He had to be, for He is God.
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