1. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is denoted in the verb phrase “caught up”?

1 Thessalonians 4:17 (ESV)

17 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, and so we will always be with the Lord.

The verb indicates the suddenness of the action, not the direction.