One friend actually told me that when Yeshua comes for His church that it’s not really the Second Coming because He hadn’t touched down on Earth so that doesn’t count.
I don’t believe the Bible calls it the Second Coming. What I see is that the Bible describes Jesus taking the Christians (alive and dead) up to be with him in Heaven.
And then it describes Jesus as setting up His Kingdom, over all the nations on earth.
It’s as simple as two descriptions for two different things that Jesus is doing. You don’t even have to invoke the human language of “Second Coming” — just the Bible’s language of “what Jesus does” — no more and no less ... :-) ...
He doesn't come down. We go up to meet Him and every eye does NOT see Him as it does when He comes to defeat the armies of Satan.