Defining The Error
#1-Inheriting the Earth
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth. (NKJV)
They
err by thinking "earth" is the planet. It even becomes the translation
in the following versions:
The world will
belong to them.(WE) the
whole earth will belong to them. (NLT) This
turns off the Light of Truth. It confirms them in many false doctrines
such as that they will inherit the planet earth and reign over it in a
future coming of God's kingdom. Thus they are blind to the Truth
- that the only coming to earth of the kingdom is long past. This
also leads them to err in all the Beatitudes, thinking that the blessings
are earthly when the truth is that all point only to heaven. They pervert
the gospel because they cannot hear the Truth. Jesus explains what
ails them in John 8:47. |
Exposing the Error
If they
could hear Jesus, they would listen and understand:
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures
on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure
is, there your heart will be also. Matthew
6:19-21 (NKJV)
If their hearts were in heaven,
they would not desire to inherit the earth. Neither will the Lord return
bringing our treasure from heaven. They have laid up their treasure on
the earth. Listen:
I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive
you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.John
14:2,3 (NKJV)
He comes to take us back to the
Father, not to bring our treasure back to us. |
Declaring the Truth
Inherit the
earth means that a little
flock will inherit or possess a land and
kingdom, which is of and in heaven. It is "the Promised Land" of the
old song. Jesus took the phrase from Psalm 37. It was originally
a promise, to Israel, of the land of Canaan. It did not mean the planet.
They did not know "planet." Therefore, if Jesus had meant the planet,
they could not have understood him. Things changed when the Jews
failed to qualify for the promise:
Therefore I tell you that the kingdom
of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce
its fruit.Matt.21:43
Do not fear, little flock, for
it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.Luke
12:32
Come, you blessed of My Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Matt.25:34(NKJV)
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