It says “together with them”..
The living and the dead are raptured almost simultaneously...
so close together, that we see the raptured dead in the air on the way to heaven........
I understand what you are saying, but the dead would have to be on earth somewhere, if we would both see each other in the rapture....
However I don’t understand the entire way this will all come about, just reading scripture and pondering..
:)