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>> “Paul says we will be changed into His image and meet Him in clouds. Right?” <<
Changed into individually created Sons of Yehova.
In the cloud more likely should be “in the spirit.”
But the whole world will witness this event!
No one will be searching for the missing people.
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shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
G3507 nephele nef-el’-ay
from G3509;
properly, cloudiness, i.e. (concretely) a cloud:—cloud.
The original Greek is not in the spirit., it is in clouds, literally.
It is best to believe God when He has said and recorded something, even though we may assume to know His mind better.
Besides, our present bodies would not fare too well in the scant atmosphere of the celestial realm, or heavens. We will need to be changed to fit that environment.