LET'S TALK ABOUT IT.
When does the Bible say believers are caught up to meet Christ?

Paul answers the question clearly.

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout… with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.”
— 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17

Paul describes the same event again:

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump… for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:52

The resurrection of the dead, the transformation of the righteous, and the catching up of believers all happen at the last trumpet.

Not before it.
Not secretly.
Not years earlier.

At the last trumpet — when Christ returns in glory.