So I'll lay it out for you.
A pretrib rapture means that Jesus brings ALL the occupants in heaven with Him when He meets the living believers in the air and gives everyone an immortal body.
No, it does NOT mean that.
"...will God bring WITH [G4862 - UNIONed-with] Him" is NOT saying He will bring with Jesus the SOULS/SPIRITS of the previously-deceased saints ('dead in Christ')
SO THAT they can get their new immortal bodies. No. (Sure, they'll do that, but THIS isn't referring to such!!)
While they ARE "present with the Lord" (without their "physical bodies," which are in the grave still), "
our Rapture [SNATCH / caught up / harpazo G726]" event (
for BOTH "the dead in Christ" AND the "we which are alive" [the "ONE BODY" together AT THE SAME TIME])
is the means by which it occurs that "[and
SO shall we] ever
be WITH [G4862 - UNIONed-with] the Lord" (i.e His "PRESENT TO" thing spoken of in Eph5:27 as well as in 2Cor11:2 [the 'A CHASTE VIRGIN [
SINGULAR]'];...
...IOW, *we* are NOT the "10 Virgin
s [
plural]" nor even the "5 [
plural]"... whom He is
not coming to
"MARRY" [
those pertain to "the wedding
FEAST / SUPPER"
aka the promised and prophesied
EARTHLY Millennial Kingdom age, and
their ENTRANCE into it (in their mortal bodies--capable of reproducing/bearing children)... This is
not who Jesus is "returning" at the point
TO MARRY: see Lk12:36-37,38,40,42-44 "when he will
RETURN FROM the wedding" [as
an ALREADY-WED Bridegroom], THEN the meal [G347]"--aka the MK age [
Lk12 being a parallel passage to Matt24:42-51, etc]); ...so Rev19:
7 and 19:
9 are distinct...
"shall God bring WITH [G4862] Him" is speaking
specifically of a point in time AFTER we've been "caught up together... and
so shall be ever be
WITH [G4862] the Lord"... IOW, the question pertaining to the "dead in Christ" being: "
HOW IS IT that they too will participate in the "bring
WITH [G4862] Him" thing,
if they're DEAD??" Paul is saying,
"HERE'S HOW" ('the DEAD IN Christ shall rise first..."... we'll all be "caught up TOGETHER / AT THE SAME TIME"... this is how
they AND we[-still-alive-ones] can RETURN
WITH [G4862] HIM (see also Col3:4 and others)--coz
they too will have experienced "our Rapture" event [
when the "G4862" thing occurs!], so NO PROBLEM, Paul says, ...
THIS IS "HOW"!...
]
Again, the "shall God bring
WITH [G4862] Him" is
not speaking of their SOULS/SPIRITS coming with Jesus to obtain their [now-glorified] bodies (at the time of "our Rapture"). No. Rather, it speaks of the time when Jesus will "RETURN" (they / the "dead in Christ" will be able to participate in this
"*ALSO*" [it says]... BY THIS MEANS: "our Rapture" event [
when the "UNION-with [G4862]" thing occurs]
having preceded that point in time, he's saying)