When Salvation Doesn’t Change Your Circumstances

May we take special notice that if salvation was ‘primarily‘ about early triumphs, that then the saved thief on the cross must have received an inferior version of it (salvation) – despite encountering the very able Saviour himself. For his earthly circumstances remained unchanged (including a fatal one – the cross). He was given neither earthy wealth nor earthly health – except for a heavenly entitlement (shortly before the persisting brutality of the said cross claimed his life). But was it really inferior? I reckon not!