This event is known as the rapture. Clearly, this passage teaches that the dead in Christ will rise first, after which we who are still alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds. We all know that the coming of Christ is found often in the Bible, both in the Old and the New Testaments. I go to prepare a place for you. No biblical passage states precisely what day or hour the Rapture will occur, but when it does multitudes who are ready will be taken.
Airplane crashes due to missing crew members.
Mass confusion of the radio and TV news media. Telephone circuits overloaded, operators missing. Numerous and uncontrollable fires and looting. Rampaging lawlessness, crime and mobs, which the remaining police are not able to control. Graves of the saved opened and bodies resurrected.