Serious Bible students: How do you read Ps. 37:11, Mat. 5:5, please?

I don't see how you are associating those particular verses with someone who's making bad predictions while claiming to understand the bible. Anyone who understands the bible wouldn't take any end of the world predictions seriously.

In those verses we are told to be humble and that God will bless the humble.

Well I really don't see the correlation between the two. These scriptures do not describe nor define the action of the false prophet who made the predictions.

I find peace in the scriptures you set forth, but about those who are saying the end of the world, I say,

1 Corinthians 4:5 speaks the wisdom to still the lieing tongue and comfort the believer. The scriptures you post are about after the Great White throne judgement, the millenium day, When God gathers His people unto Him. Maybe you should give this a deeper look see. Study.

God bless you in knowledge of His truth.

“The meek ones themselves will possess the earth.” (Psalm 37:11) This verse is not talking about just a temporary restoration of the nation of Israel to the Promised Land. The same psalm specifies: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:29) Note that this psalm says that everlasting life on earth is to be a reward for “the meek.” In a French Bible, a comment on this verse says that the word “meek” “has a far wider meaning than is apparent in translations; it includes the unfortunate, those afflicted or persecuted for Yahweh’s sake, humble hearts that are submissive to God.”

Mildness of temper is sometimes thought to imply weakness of character. However, that is not the case. Explaining the sense of the word translated “mild-tempered,” one Bible scholar wrote: “The supreme characteristic of the man who is [mild of temper] is that he is the man who is under perfect control. It is not a spineless gentleness, a sentimental fondness, a passive quietism. It is a strength under control.” Jesus stated about himself: “I am mild-tempered and lowly in heart.” (Matthew 11:29) Yet, Jesus was courageous in defending righteous principles.—Matthew 21:12, 13; 23:13-33.

But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. - Psa 37:11

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." - Matt 5:5

Personally, I don't see what Harold Camping's false predictions have to do with these verses, or what the so called rapture belief has to do with these verses.

The Church is of course exempt from these verses, as their promises are heavenly (Heb 3:1), these verses apply to the world of mankind, who during the Millennial reign, will learn about God and Christ, as we are told that eventually "all shall be taught of God" (John 6:44, 45)

Psalm 37:11 King James Version (KJV)

11But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Matthew 5:5 King James Version (KJV)

5Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Jesus taught us that only God knows the time and day and to always be ready. So let us just do as Jesus taught us to do, be ready and most believe soon it will be so.

bless you.

The word of God must come to pass, all of it must come to pass. So when and how are up to God/Jesus not us. So just be ready all the time for Jesus' return.

John 20:29

Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."

Matthew 4:4

Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.' "

Considering Jesus said he did not know when it would happen, only Jehovah God did, I somehow doubted he would confide in an old man in Australia.

That does not mean it will not happen. Isaiah 55:11 makes sure we know that whatever God begins, it always turns out exactly as planned. He created the earth to be lived on by humans who would become the caretakers of the planet. That has never changed.

The hopes and dreams of some religious people are not in line with God's plans. Who do you think will win out over the other?

First of all, the word "rapture" is found in the Bible, if you have the Latin Vulgate produced by Jerome in the early 400s. The Vulgate was the main Bible of the medieval Western Church until the Reformation. It continues to this day as the primary Latin translation of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet, as we shall see later, it was Protestants who introduced the word "rapture" into the English language from the Latin raeptius. It was Jerome�s Vulgate that translated the original Greek verb harpaz� used by Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, which is usually translated into English with the phrase "caught up." The leading Greek Lexicon says that harpaz� means "snatch, seize, i.e., take suddenly and vehemently." This is the same meaning of the Latin word rapio "to seize, snatch, tear away." It should not be surprising to anyone, that an English word was developed from the Latin which we use today known as "rapture."While it is technically true that the word rapture does not appear in the English Bible, it does, nevertheless, appear in the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible. Certainly the notion of a rapture appears many times in the Bible. Translators of the Bible into English could have been justified had they translated "caught up" in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 with the English word "rapture." They also could have translated it by the word snatch. We could just as easily call the rapture "the great snatch."The word rapture was used in the English language at least a couple of hundred years before J. N. Darby came along .The Greek word harpaz� is used fourteen times in the New Testament. In addition to 1 Thessalonians 4:17, it is used at least three more times of one being raptured to heaven (2 Cor. 12:2, 4; Rev. 12:5). So there is no need to get upset over the use of the Latin based, English word "rapture." It is a biblical word.

I wasn't expecting the latest false prophecy about the end of the earth to come true.

Here's some good exposition on the verses you asked about

Psalms 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Barnes Notes on the Bible

Psa 37:11

But the meek shall inherit the earth - See the notes at Psa_37:3. On the meaning of the word here rendered “meek,” see the notes at Psa_9:12, where it is rendered “humble.” The word properly denotes those who are afflicted, distressed, needy; then, those who are of humble rank in life; then, the mild, the gentle, the meek. The term here is a general one to denote those who are the friends of God, considered as meek, mild, gentle, humble, in contradistinction from the wicked who are proud and haughty; perhaps also, in this connection, in contrast with the wicked as prosperous in life. It was probably this passage that the Saviour quoted in Mat_5:5.

Mat 5:5

The meek - Meekness is patience in the reception of injuries. It is neither meanness nor a surrender of our rights, nor cowardice; but it is the opposite of sudden anger, of malice, of long-harbored vengeance. Christ insisted on his right when he said, “If I have done evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?” Joh_18:23. Paul asserted his right when he said, “They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves, and fetch us out,” Act_16:37. And yet Christ was the very model of meekness. It was one of his characteristics, “I am meek,” Mat_11:29. So of Paul. No man endured more wrong, or endured it more patiently than he. Yet the Saviour and the apostle were not passionate. They bore all patiently. They did not press their rights through thick and thin, or trample down the rights of others to secure their own.

Meekness is the reception of injuries with a belief that God will vindicate us. “Vengeance is his; he will repay,” Rom_12:19. It little becomes us to take his place, and to do what he has promised to do.

Meekness produces peace. It is proof of true greatness of soul. It comes from a heart too great to be moved by little insults. It looks upon those who offer them with pity. He that is constantly ruffled; that suffers every little insult or injury to throw him off his guard and to raise a storm of passion within, is at the mercy of every mortal that chooses to disturb him. He is like “the troubled sea that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.”

They shall inherit the earth - This might have been translated the land. It is probable that here is a reference to the manner in which the Jews commonly expressed themselves to denote any great blessing. It was promised to them that they should inherit the land of Canaan. For a long time the patriarchs looked forward to this, Gen_15:7-8; Exo_32:13. They regarded it as a great blessing. It was so spoken of in the journey in the wilderness, and their hopes were crowned when they took possession of the promised land, Deu_1:38; Deu_16:20. In the time of our Saviour they were in the constant habit of using the Old Testament, where this promise perpetually occurs, and they used it “as a proverbial expression to denote any great blessing, perhaps as the sum of all blessings,” Psa_37:20; Isa_60:21.

Our Saviour used it in this sense, and meant to say, not that the meek would own great property or have many lands, but that they would possess special blessings. The Jews also considered the land of Canaan as a type of heaven, and of the blessings under the Messiah. To inherit the land became, therefore, an expression denoting those blessings.

When our Saviour uses this language here, he means that the meek shall be received into his kingdom, and partake of its blessings here, and of the glories of the heavenly Canaan hereafter. The value of meekness, even in regard to worldly property and success in life, is often exhibited in the Scriptures, Pro_22:24-25; Pro_15:1; Pro_25:8, Pro_25:15.

It is also seen in common life that a meek, patient, mild man is the most prospered. An impatient and quarrelsome man raises up enemies; often loses property in lawsuits; spends his time in disputes and broils rather than in sober, honest industry; and is harassed, vexed, and unsuccessful in all that he does. “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come,” 1Ti_4:8. Compare 1Ti_6:3-6.

I believe these scriptures refer to those who belong to the kingdom of Jesus, who will inherit the earth when Jesus returns to establish His reign. The day and hour no one knows, even the Son, only the Father. What we do know is, it will happen because Jesus said it would.

it is after Christ's return that the Lord will create a new heaven and a new earth, and the meek shall inherit the earth. and in Isaiah it is mentioned that the Lord God looks to those who are humble in heart and contritte in spirit to those He will reveal His salvation.