Dispensationalism

=== Eschatology ===
{{Further|Premillennialism|Rapture}}
Dispensationalism teaches an [[eschatology]] that is specifically [[Premillennialism|premillennial]] in that it affirms the [[return of Christ]] prior to a literal 1,000-year reign of Jesus Christ on earth as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies.<ref name=":7" />{{Rp|pages=147–148}} This [[Millennial Kingdom|millennial kingdom]] will be [[theocratic]] in nature and not mainly soteriological, as it is considered by [[George Eldon Ladd]] and others with a non-dispensational form of premillennialism.<ref name=":4" /> It will be distinctly Jewish, with the throne of David restored.<ref name=":16" />{{Rp|page=31}}

The majority of dispensationalists profess a [[Rapture#Pre-tribulational premillennialism|pretribulation rapture]], while [[Rapture#Mid-tribulational premillennialism|mid-tribulation]], or [[post-tribulation rapture]] are minority views.<ref>{{Cite book |last= Hoekema |first= Anthony A. |author-link= Anthony A. Hoekema |title= The Bible and the Future |year=1994 |edition= revised |orig-year= 1979 |publisher= [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company|Eerdmans]] |location= Grand Rapids, Michigan |url= https://archive.org/details/biblefuture0000hoek/page/164 |isbn= 0-85364-624-4 |page= [https://archive.org/details/biblefuture0000hoek/page/164 164] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Walvoord |first=John F. |title=Blessed hope and the tribulation |publisher=Contemporary Evangelical |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-310-34041-6 |pages=13}}</ref> Pre-tribulational rapture doctrine is what separates dispensationalism from other forms of premillennialism and other millennial views.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=409}}

Dispensational eschatology was popularized in [[Hal Lindsey|Hal Lindsey's]] book, ''[[The Late Great Planet Earth]]''. In Lindsey's version, the unfolding of events includes the establishment of Israel in 1948, Jews regaining control of Jerusalem's sacred sites in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the rebuilding of the Temple which has yet to occur, an Antichrist will come to power, Christians will be removed from the earth in a rapture of the Church, and there will be seven years of tribulation (Daniel's seventieth week) culminating in a great battle of Armageddon in which Christ will triumph over evil and establish a literal 1,000 year reign of his kingdom on earth.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Erin A. |date=Winter 2017 |title=The Late Great Planet Earth Made the Apocalypse a Popular Concern |url=https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2017/winter/feature/the-late-great-planet-earth-made-the-apocalypse-popular-concern |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=The National Endowment for the Humanities |language=en}}</ref> The necessity of the rapture is that, with the Church and Israel being distinct, the Church must be removed before remnant Israel can be gathered.<ref name=":16" />{{Rp|page=42}}