Those who believe that Christ will come before a seven-year period of intense tribulation to take His church (living and dead) into heaven.

After this period of fulfillment of divine wrath, He will then return to rule from a holy city (that is, the New Jerusalem) over the earthly nations for one thousand years.

After these thousand years, Satan, who was bound up during Christ's earthly reign, will be released to deceive the nations, to gather an army of the deceived, and to battle against the Lord.

This battle will end in both the judgment of the wicked and Satan and the entrance into eternal glory by the righteous.

This view is called "premillenialism" because it places the return of Christ before the millennium and it is called "dispensational" because it is founded in the doctrines of dispensationalism: