Blessed are the Meek.

Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

When I first read the Sermon On the Mount 36 years ago, I did not know how nor why meek people would inherit the earth. Imagine meek people claiming ownership to all places on earth. Land, sky and sea. It sounded like the least ambitious of people being promised the most ambitious of blessings.

Perhaps, a more meaningful way of rendering the above verse is given in Young's Literal Translation, which goes as follows:

Matthew 5:5 YLT
Happy the meek -- because they shall inherit the land.

Reading LAND instead of EARTH, this profound teaching of our Master Yeshua the Anointed One appears to distill the essence of a fundamental truth upheld by the people of YHWH in the ancient times. It is a truth mentioned repeatedly in various places in the Writings and in the books of the Prophets. For example,

(1) Those who inherit the land are called the meek. They enjoy peace and prosper when the wicked are removed:

Psalm 37: 10 - 11
A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look for them, they will not be found.
But the meek will inherit the land
and enjoy peace and prosperity.

(2) Those who inherit the land are blessed by YHWH, as opposed to those who are cursed by Him:

Psalm 37: 22
those YHWH blesses will inherit the land,
but those he curses will be destroyed.

(3) Those who inherit the land are righteous as opposed to those who are wrongdoers or who are wicked:

Psalm 37: 28 - 29
Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed;
the offspring of the wicked will perish.
The righteous will inherit the land
and dwell in it for ever.

Proverbs 10:30
The righteous will never be uprooted, but the wicked will not remain in the land.

(4) Those who inherit the land are people belonging of YHWH, growing from the shoot planted by Him, the work of His hands and the display of His splendour:

Isaiah 60:21
Then will all your people be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor.

(5) Finally, those who inheirt the land are people who follow only justice (righteousness) alone:

Deuteronomy 16:20
Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land YHWH your God is giving you.

Tonight, as I search the scriptures, I learn that this teaching of our Master Yeshua the Anointed One carries the essence of an ancient truth given in the Word of YHWH : that the meek, those who are blessed by YHWH, those who are righteous and who follow justice alone will inherit the land promised by YHWH.

Yes, the meek who will inherit the land are people belonging to YHWH Elohim, the shoot planted by YHWH, the very works of His hands.

The meek are a splendid people. They are the display of YHWH's splendour. Blessed are the meek.