1 Thessalonians 4:17
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
caught up
Not church saints only, but all bodies of the saved, of whatever dispensation, are included in the first resurrection
( See Scofield) - (1 Corinthians 15:52)
as here described, but it is peculiarly the "blessed hope" of the Church.
Compare (Matthew 24:42); (Matthew 25:13); (Luke 12:36); (Acts 1:11); (Philippians 3:20); (Philippians 3:21); (Titus 2:11).