"If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God". Colossians 3:1. ESV

Possible avenues:

A. Does "raised" here refer not just to Christians rising to life but also ascending with Christ to "heavenly places"? Ephesians 2:5-6: "..made us alive together with Christ...and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places".

B. How does "you have been raised [synegerthete] with him" relate to "I will raise [anasteso] him up on the last day"? John 6:44.

C. Ephesians 4:8 "he led a host of captives". Are the "captives" those Jesus captured from Satan. i.e. the church, and that is when the church was raised?

Barnes Notes on the Bible says: "Man was held by Satan as a prisoner. His chains were around him. Christ rescued the captive prisoner, and designed to make him a part of his triumphal procession into heaven, that thus the victory might be complete". Do we agree with Barnes?

D. It seems to me that sometimes Scripture reveals God's point of view. So it can say something has happened, as it has happened in God's experience, not as we experience it. Is "we have been raised with Christ" an instance of this?