Why did Christ say the meek are blessed?

Answer

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." Matt. 5: 5.
NOTE - This inheritance cannot be realized in this life; for here the truly meek generally have
little of earth's good things.

13. What three general divisions did Jesus recognize as including all the writings of the Old Testament?
Whose destruction was made certain by the death of Christ ?
What first attracted the prophet's attention?
3. What urgent petition of the prophet connects this prayer with the vision of the taking away of the continual mediation and the desolation of the sanctuary recorded in Daniel 8?
5. Does the second, third, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth commandment indicate the author of the Decalogue?
What does the historian say of this legislation?
How many of these beings did John see around the throne?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle