Then what do you call these verses?
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
16. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. The 'dead' rise first (rise from WHERE I ask?) then the LIVING saints are joined with them to meet the Lord.
The souls of the saved dead are literally present everywhere because they are spirit.
The issue is not one of a soul being a concrete, limited object that has to be moved from one place to another in order to animate a body.
The body will rise when Christ says it is time for the soul to animate the body once more. The soul does not have to move anyplace in order to do it.
Also, you neglect to look at 1 Corinthians 15, especially 51-53:
Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.
Even the bodies of the resurrected and glorified will be different from what we know.