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Anyway it would be interesting to see if anyone else has looked at it this way or if they will think I’m all washed up.

I have entertained it. But I think you hit the nail on the head here:
What I’m thinking of is since God doesn’t live on a time frame he still has to translate his thinking to humans in a time frame. a

You could not have illustrated this for me better.
I believe, to show Himself ture, that God did a great jog of this. I have mentioned His prophecy to Abraham when He said that the Jews would be slaves for 400 years. He was on time with Moses and that is why the Jews were at that time earnestly seeking a "deliverer."
The same with the 70 weeks. God gave a time frame of when to expect the Messiah and guess what? Christ was right on time. The tension and expectation was great during His life also. The KNEW the messiah was supposed to e there. But out of pride and holding a false hope (an earthly kingdom ruled by the Messiah where power would be with the Jews forever) caused them to kill Him. Alll the while fulfilling God's ultimate plan of salvation.
And I believe the very specific signs and time statements of CHrist came true right on time. It seemed to be God's style to be on time, yet use descriptive and apocolyptic language.

Salvation is talked about in a past, present and future tense within the Bible.

YES!!
Because the process of salvation was to continue forever. How many verses declare the church to be a "forever" concept? Or how many declare God's kingdom to be everlasting?
Salvation of man is something that will continue, as is, forever.
The difference is in the covenant. THAT is what was changing. THAT was the split of the age. "The end of the age" was the end of the Old Covenant age. NOT the end of the world.

And the fact that the second resurrection was a past event, only tells us that now, when we experience the first resurrection, when we die in the flesh, we instantly recieve our new bodies and go to be with the Lord.
In the Old Covenant, their souls still died with their body, held in "hades" until the second coming.
Since the second resurrection occurd in AD 70 (on time), hades is destroyed, and those who have faith in Christ NEVER die.
John 11:24 Martha said, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. 26 Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die--ever. Do you believe this?"

Think about this carefully, until death is defeated (1 Cor 15:51-54), this statement was not yet in effect, it was a HOPE. But now, since the ressurection has happened, it is ture and continues for all who are saved.
You do not need to hope for a second resurrection. Because you never really die. They hoped for one, because they wanted to escape hades. Now there IS NO hades.
Somehow my eschatology is bankrupt? I think the truth is actually MORE glorious!!

This time I may have everyone calling me a heretic.

Just shove it off. Only an Apostle can call you that