Oh I forgot to come back to VPW's distinction between a resurrection and a rising.
I'm going from memory, so if anyone still has Are the Dead Alive Now, feel free to chime in.
We know Revelation teaches that there will be a resurrection of the just and a resurrection of the unjust. But where does the Gathering Together fit in? Well, the GC is not a resurrection at all, because even though all those people are getting up from the dead, they're joining people who are living, so it's just a rising, not a resurrection.
See?
As opposed to the first and second resurrections, which feature formerly dead people... also... joining... the living... wait.