Actually me too Silk...it is just my lay person approach (when approaching a verse) to do four things...first is pray for the guidance of the Spirit...second is look up terms in the lexicon (which does not always help, believe me) and then third, I to try and read it is context with as little theological bias as possible (sometimes the denomination we are or were in, implants an understanding that I have found is not always true)...then I try and explore as much as I can find in the scriptures on that topic...
So what I offered does not mean I am correct, I just wanted to help with the definition of terms...to give something to the discussion other than just my opinion (because it is the Bible Study section). Most of His audience in the Sermon on the Mount did not yet have Christ like you or I (He had not yet been given, nor had the general outpouring of the Holy Spirit occurred). The same with when He gave a similar message in Luke (different time under different circumstances).
So I can see how for some who have Christ in their heart it is unfamiliar to feel spiritually poor (for we are rich - Ephesians 1)....we all have sinned without a doubt, but some of us were more evil than others...I was evil, very evil, did evil, liked evil....and on occasion evil still tries to creep into my mind (which I by God's help rebuke and cast down, sometimes having to utterly fall on the rock)...I lived for sin then and now in Christ have died to sin. The question I ask every day for 30 years is "How could there be such a love?" But praise His holy name there is...Amazing grace that loved a wretch like me has really deep meaning...that old man should have been physically killed or imprisoned for life, but thanks be to our ABBA he has been judged, found wanting, condemned, and nailed to the cross...and now by the patience of the Holy Spirit I am altogether a new creature of the last Adam.
So what do you (or others, please weigh in) think "inherit the earth" means?
In His love
Brother Paul
Hello Paul and welcome! Your comments are well said and prayfully given.
When we consider "inherit the earth", It is my opinion that we must remember that God has not finished with the nation of Israel. The promises God made to Abraham did NOT pass on on to the church. If they did that would be called "Replacement Theology" and it is not Biblical in any way whatsoever IMHO.
God promised Abraham THE LAND and Abraham bever possessed the land promised to him. Neither has his people ever possessed all of that Land. So then, for God not to be a liar, it is important that the children of Abraham inherit the LAND God promised to the father of the faithful.(Gen. 13:15 & Gen. 15:18).
Psalms 37:9-29 (in part)...........
"For evildoers shall be cut off, but those that wait upon the lord, they shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace........
"Such as be blessed of Him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of Him shall be cut off.......
"The righteous shall inherit the LAND and dwell therein forever".
The *KEY* is the Biblical fact that Israel is an earthly people that were given an earthly promise. The church by contrast is a HEAVENLY people with heavenly promises.
Rev. 21:1 says that John saw....."a new heaven and a new earth".
Rev. 21:10 says that John saw............"The new Jerusalem, The pearly White City of God desending out of heaven from God".
Biblically, there will be a "new earth" and it will be occupied by Israel and the saved nations. There will be the Pearly White City of God that will be the home of the Church which is in fact the Bride of Christ.