Do you believe that the meek will inherit the earth?

Answer 1

Yes but let's hope it is cleaned up first. We have made a mess of things.

Answer 2

Non-believer

The meek shall inherit the Earth
A saying adapted from the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount.
The saying implies that those who forgo worldly power will be rewarded in the kingdom of heaven.

Beatitudes
(bee-AT-uh-toohdz, bee-AT-uh-tyoohdz) Eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. The word is from the Latin beatus, meaning “blessed,” and each of the Beatitudes begins with the word blessed. They include “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth” and “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”

Matthew 5:5
5Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. (KJV)

Answer 3

Meek as in those who are kind in spirit and in heart; those who do not bully nor take advantage of those who are less fortunate; those who seek peace and love rather than fighting and hatred; I believe that it is a terribly hard task, but that eventually the good will survive and, yes, the meek shall inherit the earth.

Answer 4

You're just begging for one liners there, why don't you turn on the tv and watch the news sometime?


You see what's going on in Afghanistan? Yanks invade Iraq and Afghanistan and they're getting the dung kicked out of them in the former so now they're gonna pummel the hell out of the latter - no one wants another Vietnam right?

So look, does this sound like the meek inheriting the Earth to you? History happens today or not at all my foolish friend.

Answer 5

Not as popularly defined.

The word used (praus, pronouced more like prah-oose) means humble, but it is related to another (praios) which is more like gentle. I've been told, but can't confirm, that at least one version of the Bible in French uses the word debonaire, a very different connotation as we commonly perceive it. The original "gentlemen", then were Christians who were practicing without excessive pride the kindness and gentleness fruits of the Holy Spirit in Galatians 5. Here is part of the context:

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (19-23)

Considering the choice by contrast, let us hope so.

Answer 6

Yes. Another word for Meek is Obedient. A powerful war-horse was valuable because it was meek, that is, it obeyed its master completely. It had the power to do great damage, But that power is controlled.
Those who will inherit the earth will be like that war-horse. Powerful, but obedient to their Creator and Lord.
Pretty cool, huh?

Answer 7

God tells us that will happen throughout the Bible, so --yes I believe it--in fact, I hope to be one of the meek ones who do.

Psalms 37:9-11--"For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."

Answer 8

Well, that's what King David said: Psalms 37:29  The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. King James Bible

There are those who reason that, because of the very nature of the physical universe, the time must come when the sun will no longer shine and the earth will no longer sustain life. But are they correct? What does the Creator say, the One who brought into existence energy and matter, the One who originated the laws on which our existence depends?
Solomon penned these words: “A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite.” But for how long? According to the literal rendering of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, it will be “to time indefinite.” What does that mean?
As to what the expression means in connection with the earth, we are not left in doubt. At Psalm 104:5 we are told: “He has founded the earth upon its established places; it will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.
Thus it is regarding the planet Earth on which we live that Jesus Christ taught his followers to pray to God: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.” Matthew 6:9, 10.

Jehovah’s will is not for the earth to be inhabited by people who have no regard for its Owner and little love for one another. Long ago he promised: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:9, 29) “The inhabited earth to come,” of which the Bible speaks, will be populated by people who fear God and sincerely love their fellowmen. (Hebrews 2:5; compare Luke 10:25-28.) So great will be the changes that take place under God’s heavenly Kingdom that the Bible speaks of “a new earth”, not a different globe, but a new human society that will live amid the paradisaic conditions that mankind’s Creator purposed from the time he began his earthly creation. Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 2:7-9, 15.

The establishing of that “new earth” will, of necessity, be preceded by great destruction, one surpassing anything that mankind has yet experienced. For the good of the earth itself and all who are truly grateful to its Creator, he will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” (Revelation 11:17, 18)

But can we be sure that this is not just another crafty scheme designed to deprive people of something? Yes, we can. Since the earth is part of Jehovah’s marvelous creation, he as the Maker and Owner has the legal right to bequeath it to whomever he chooses. Through King David, Jehovah made this prophetic promise to His beloved Son, Jesus Christ: “Ask of me, that I may give nations as your inheritance and the ends of the earth as your own possession.” (Psalm 2:8) For this reason, the apostle Paul described Jesus as the one “whom [God] appointed heir of all things.” (Hebrews 1:2) We can, therefore, have full confidence that when Jesus said that the meek “shall inherit the earth,” he did so in good faith, and he has the proper authority to fulfill his promise. Matthew 28:18.

2 Peter 3:6: Peter writes that God brought the Deluge “upon a world of ungodly people,” while preserving Noah and his family; in this way “the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.” (2Pe 2:5; 3:6) It may again be noted that the reference here is not to the destruction of the planet or of the celestial bodies of the universe, but it is restricted to the human sphere, in this case the unrighteous human society. It was that “world” that Noah condemned by his faithful course. Heb 11:7.

Answer 9

Yes,

Prov 2:21For the upright will live in the land
And the blameless will remain in it;
22But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

Answer 10

Sure. Ironically, I think you probably do, too.

Meekness is not docility. It is power under control. Those who are self-disciplined.

Those who are dishonest and power-hungry may seem to control things for a time, but it's never permanent.

Answer 11

Yes I do see Matthew 5:5

Meekness is not weakness it is strength under control I saw this in a daily bread devotional.