Consider that the word "AIR" doesn't mean atmosphere but it means the "breath of life" spiritual body that we will all be changed into at Christ's return at the 7th
The word "AIR" doesn't mean atmosphere. It means the "breath of life" spiritual body that we will all be changed into at the return of Christ at the 7th Trump as written in I Cor 15: 51-52. This is the same breath of life that was breathed into Adam. There is no need to "fly away" because Christ is coming to earth with his saints to set up his millennium kingdom and will gather his people at that time, Math 24:30-31, Mark 13:24-27
From bibletools.org :
Strong's #109: aer (pronounced ah-ayr')
from aemi (to breathe unconsciously, i.e. respire; by analogy, to blow); "air" (as naturally circumambient):--air. Compare 5594.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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aēr
1) the air, particularly the lower and denser air as distinguished from the higher and rarer air
2) the atmospheric region
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from aemi (to breathe unconsciously, i.e. respire; by analogy, to blow)
Citing in TDNT: 1:165, 25
Usage:
This word is used 7 times:
Acts 22:23: "dust into the air,"
1 Corinthians 9:26: "I, not as one that beateth the air:"
1 Corinthians 14:9: "for ye shall speak into the air."
Ephesians 2:2: "prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh"
1 Thessalonians 4:17: "to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever"
Revelation 9:2: "sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke"
Revelation 16:17: "vial into the air; and there came a great voice
I really don't see your need to muddy up a no-brainer