The Greek word is air not pneuma.
Nice try.
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air:(AER) and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
You are correct.
Interesting,..I had previously read the verse (in studying the Rapture), thinking it meant a physical property and had been surprised to discover it used the word PNEUMA when I read the Greek, which I understood to be interpreted as air but might be interpreted as spirit in further study. I’m going back through my notes now to try to figure out what verse I must be confusing it with,...
It wasn’t just a try.
By looking at the entire body of scriptures pertaining to the end times, it is understood there is no flying off into the atmosphere for God’s people.
In fact, in Matthew 24 the scripture plainly states that there will be much persecution for God’s people and some will even be killed. No mention of any flying off into space though.
Those who are alive and remain unto His coming will be changed, clothed with the same glory as Jesus, where “death is swallowed up in victory.”