The Bahá'ís Under the Provisions of the Covenant (BUPC) is a Bahá'í division founded originally by Dr. Leland Jensen. It is currently under the leadership of the Second International Bahá'í Council (sIBC), founded by Jensen in 1991. He created the sIBC to be the first of a four stage evolution of the council that would culminate into a universally elected Universal House of Justice (UHJ) with the descendant of King David as its president.(p.49) He believed the Haifa based UHJ to be flawed without a "Guardian" (an executive hereditary position of the Bahá'í Faith); making it fallible, and not the UHJ envisaged by the founding fathers of the Faith. In 2001 a debate among the members of the sIBC broke it into two groups, each claiming to represent the true sIBC, resulting in an unresolved court case. One is led by Neal Chase, who claimed to be the fourth Guardian and the other followed the majority members of the sIBC who opposed Chase's claim to the Guardianship [http://bupc.montana.com/.

The BUPC formed as a result of a dispute over the proper succession of the guardianship of the Bahá'í Faith following the death of Mason Remey in 1974, who himself separated from the Bahá'í Faith in 1960 by claiming to be the Guardian. Jensen believed that Mason's adopted son Pepe Remey was the third Guardian, and made him president of his sIBC. Their beliefs focus on the necessity of a living Guardian after Shoghi Effendi, who they believe to be seated on the Throne of King David, as well as an emphasis on warning the public of the apocalyptic disasters in the Bible (see predictions), and Divinely inspired prophecies believed to be encoded in a timeline found in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Estimates for total number of adherents vary greatly, due to its inherent small size. The BUPC leadership has no official claim to number of adherents, while various estimates cite "1,000 or so" or "no more than 1,400" [http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_52.html#354 prior to the division in 2001.