then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
and so shall we ever be with the Lord: This is the denouement, the final outcome of this remarkable series of events. The Bible does not answer all our questions or satisfy all our curiosity about the future. We might like additional information, but we have been given all God wants us to know (Deuteronomy 29:29). "When Paul comes to that great fact that makes everything else unimportant, he stops. There is no need (and no more) to add to that" (Morris 94).