I do not see any “rapture” there. and if you notice it is the ones that remain that meet the Lord not the ones taking the imaginary flying rescue ride. There are at least two camps on this .
http://www.historicist.com/articles2/rapture.htm
“I do not see any “rapture” there.”
Maybe because you don’t want to??? Because it is clearly there...
“Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air”
“...caught up together with them in the clouds”
Your arguement is much like the Jehovah Witnesses claim that the word "trinity" does not appear in the Bible. You need to bone up on your bible tools before making this kind of arguement.
For the record, the word "rapture" comes from the Latin word "rapturo," which in turn was a translation of the Greek verb "caught up" found in 1 Thes 4:17.