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.

How many will yield to the demand to worship the beast?
5. What did He say of those who should break one of the least of God's commandments, and teach men so to do?
How long was Jerusalem to be trodden down of the Gentiles?
What was to take place under the third trumpet?
8. After the fall of Western Rome, what power in the East arose to harass and overrun the Roman world, East and West?
By what name are the members of this family called?
4. And when the new heavens and the new earth have appeared, and the holy city, New Jerusalem, then he made?

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