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Ouote from what you gave as above, where does it say He came with His elect and He stepped foot with them on earth?
It doesn't say anything in the PAST TENSE like you are wrongly suggesting.
Stick with the Scripture as written, and try not to insert your own doctrine or dogma of another into the Scripture.
Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4 showed only about the event of Christ's future coming to gather His Church, and Paul showed it will involve the gathering of two separate groups of saints, the saints that had already died which must be resurrected first and Jesus brings with Him when He descends to earth, and then the saints still alive that will be "caught up" to Jesus and those resurrected saints. STOP. That's as far as Apostle Paul goes with the event of Christ's future coming and gathering of the Church in that specific 1 Thessalonians 4 Chapter.
Yet before Paul, one of God's Old Testament prophets, Zechariah, was given prophecy about Christ's future coming with all His saints returning to the Mount of Olives, and that is written in Zechariah 14. It even says Christ's feet will touch down upon the Mount of Olives, which is upon this earth, and there a great valley will be formed, as Jesus brings all His saints with Him there. Acts 1 confirms this spot for Jesus' future return, as the two angels mentioned how Jesus shall return "in like manner" as He ascended into Heaven (upon a cloud).