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23 Paradise Restored Glorifies God *** It is within the realm of possibility and of likelihood that, some day in the future, the names of all those anointed Christians who have made their calling and choosing to the heavenly Kingdom sure and who have been blessed by this supernal resurrection will be published in full for the information of the human family in their earthly Paradise. (2Peter 1:10; Psalm 87:5,6) Thus, the absence of the 144,000 spirit-begotten anointed disciples of Jesus Christ from the earthly Paradise will be fully understood to the satisfaction of everybody and with a wholehearted rejoicing over them and together with them. 89: 3,4 Promise to David In the process of providing evidence for the demise of Biblical minimalism, Garfinkel discusses the Tel Dan inscription which mentions the House of David. He also discusses the mention of the House of David in the Mesha Stela, and the archaeological evidence at Khirbet Qeiyafa that confirms the traditional chronology for the Iron Age in Judah. 2 THE HOUSE OF DAVID INSCRIPTION Then on July 21, 1993, while work crews were preparing the site for visitors, a broken fragment of basalt stone was uncovered in secondary use in a wall. Surveyor Gila Cook glanced at the stone in the rays of the afternoon sun and saw what looked like alphabetic letters. On closer examination it turned out that, indeed, they had found an inscribed stone.. Biblical Minimalism, popularized in the mid-1980 s by a number of academics at the University of Copenhagen, espoused the view that the Bible was written in the Hellenistic Period, nearly 700 years after David and Solomon and thus the Biblical descriptions of them were purely imagined. Since then, however, a number of archaeological discoveries have been unearthed that prove that David and Solomon were actual historical personalities. In fact, the latest edition of Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2011, Volume 37, Number 3) goes so far as to report on The Birth and Death of Biblical Minimalism. Reviewi ng the impact of the Tel Dan Stele discovered in 1993-4 and the subsequent re-ex amination of the Mesha Stela and the ostraca and bones discovered during the rec ent excavations of the Israelite town at Qeifiya bordering Philistia, archaeolog ists are now convinced that the evidence is indisputably in favour of rejecting B iblical Minimalism. The implication is that there is more truth to the Biblical n arrative than has been previously accepted. And it the stories of David and Solo mon are now plausible