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.
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If you read all of the Bible rather than favored sound bites, you get the picture that we will be meeting “in the spirit.”
Its covered in many places.
The place we go to is not in the air, nor the clouds, but just around a corner that we cannot see with our Earthly eyes.
The realm of Yehova is all around us but we cannot see it unless he wants us to see it. Read John ch 3 carefully.
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