What is dispensational premillennialism? Are there variations to this view?
First, when Jesus comes for the church and the believers in relation to the tribulation period, there will be an intense suffering because it s the time of divine judgment in the world. Premillennialists believe it covers a seven-year period after the church has been raptured to heaven and ends in Jesus’ return. There s pre-, mid-, and posttribulation, so the view that Jesus comes before the millennium starts is pretribulationism, the view that he comes in the middle of that period is the midtribulationism, and he comes at the end of the tribulation is posttribulationism. So the return of Christ for believers and his return to the earth happen at the same time. Dispensationalism tends to be premillennial and pretribulational because it argues that there s a distinction between the church and Israel in the program of God. When God returns to work more directly with Israel, the church would have been removed. The rapture, when believers go to meet the Lord, takes place before the tribula
