Yes you are preaching it correct, satan, Islam, nothing will succeed over Jesus. Islam will not conquer the world, but it has and will cause much death and suffering. There will be great Tribulation and then Jesus will catch us up to Him (the dead in Christ and then the living in Christ) on His way down here to conquer all and start His millennium rule on earth.
The dead in Christ will rise from death to life, THEN all of the Church, The Bride of Christ will be changed, in a moment, to put on incorruptibility and be caught up together in the clouds, to meet the Lord inn the air and go to The Father's House for the Bema Seat and the wedding. THEN we return with Our Lord to the tribulation scourged earth.
The Rapture is a thing done to living beings. There are examples in the Old and New Testament of this.