In the Air or in the New Jerusalem?

The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament 3507. νεφέλη nephélē

Jude 1:12; Sept.: Gen. 9:13, 14; Judg. 5:4; Ps. 36:6; Eccl. 11:4); the pillar of cloud in the desert which accompanied supernatural appearances and events (1 Cor. 10:1, 2 [cf. Sept.: Ex. 13:21, 22]); in connection with Christ (Luke 9:35, “a voice out of the cloud”); at His transfiguration, a luminous cloud (Matt. 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:34); as receiving Christ up at His ascension (Acts 1:9); as surrounding Him at His Second Coming (Matt. 24:30; 26:64; Mark 13:26; 14:62; Luke 21:27; Rev. 1:7; 14:14–16); as surrounding ascending or descending saints or angels (1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 10:1; 11:12 [cf. in regard to God in Sept.: Ps. 18:12; 97:2; Is. 19:1]).

1 Thessalonians 4:17 NKJV

Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

3507. νεφέλη nephélē; gen . nephélēs, fem. noun, a diminutive of néphos (3509), a cloud. A small cloud (Luke 12:54 [cf . 1 Kgs. 18:44]); used generally (2 Pet. 2:17).

1 Zodhiates, S. (2000).

Jude 1:12; Sept .: Gen. 9:13, 14; Judg. 5:4; Ps. 36:6; Eccl. 11:4); the pillar of cloud in the desert which accompanied supernatural appearances and events (1 Cor. 10:1, 2 [cf . Sept .: Ex. 13:21, 22]); in connection with Christ (Luke 9:35, “a voice out of the cloud”); at His transfiguration, a luminous cloud (Matt. 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:34); as receiving Christ up at His ascension (Acts 1:9); as surrounding Him at His Second Coming (Matt. 24:30; 26:64; Mark 13:26; 14:62; Luke 21:27; Rev. 1:7; 14:14–16); as surrounding ascending or descending saints or angels (1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 10:1; 11:12 [cf . in regard to God in Sept .:Ps. 18:12; 97:2; Is. 19:1]).

Meet with the resurrected dead in the cloud...then congregate in the air/ero?

Then turn around in resurrected bodies to hang around in the amorphous heavenly clouds again for seven years? Doesn’t sound very sound. Meeting Him in the descending NJ; driving the P & P of the aer...absolutimente Loco; to the extent he has someone like Kim to shoot a nuke at us...as Brother Marzulli suggests...then circling the last Jerico for the Seven years of the Great Tribulation? I am going to go with that until corrected or verified by two more witnesses. Amen.

1 Zodhiates, S. (2000) The complete word study dictionary: New Testament. electronic ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.