Conclusion

Election:

• The Election of Priests, Kings, and Disciples
  
• The Election of Messiah and Angels
  
• The Election of Jerusalem
  
• The Election of False Gods and Foolish Things
  
• The Election of Israel
  
• The “Few Chosen” Are Israelites
  
• The Elect in the Tribulation
  
• The Elect in Peter’s Epistles Are Jewish
  
• Elect but Not Saved
  
• The Elect in Romans Are Israelites
  
• Election of Grace
  
• Foreknowledge
  
• The Remaining Verses of Election
  
• Conclusion
  
• Basic Theology: Election Part 01 Video
  
• Basic Theology: Election Part 02 Video

Previous Page: The Remaining Verses of Election

We thus come to the end of our study having seen that elect and election have nothing to do with salvation, predestined to eternal life or death, nor any Calvinistic definition whatsoever.

God elected priests, kings, disciples, Messiah, angels, and Jerusalem all of which had nothing to do with being predestined to salvation.

We also saw that elected/chosen was used of foolish things and of false gods (on man’s part) again, the term had nothing to do with being predestined to salvation.

We came to the election of Israel and saw that in no less than eight verses in the Old Testament God declared Israel to be His elect!

When we turned to the New Testament we could see that elect/election/chosen never was there as a reference to being predestined to salvation.

In fact, nearly every reference of the elect was to Israel.

We looked at the elect in the tribulation and saw that it was speaking of the Jews.

We looked at the epistles of Peter and found the mention there of elect was to the Jews.

We looked at the book of Romans and again, the Jews were the elect.

We examined the remaining verses that spoke of election or God’s choosing and found that they more than likely refer to Israel as the elect.

Finally, we considered the term foreknowledge/foreknow and found that it is not a salvific term but simply God or even man, knowing something in advance.

With all that we have seen we must therefore conclude that elect is not salvation.

Election has nothing to do with salvation or damnation. It is simply God or man making a choice.

However, the term “the elect” is often, a reference to Israel/Jews, who are of course God’s chosen people.

The New Testament references of the elect are never speaking one’s eternal destiny but of God having chosen someone for a particular purpose.

In almost all the New Testament references, the elects are in fact the Jews!

It turns out that the New Testament is more Jewish-centred than most of us ever imagined!

The epistles of Paul, James, Peter, Hebrews and John are written to the Jew first and then the Gentiles.

Personally, I am quite satisfied that God’s plans centre around Israel; we Gentile believers have been grafted in which is good enough for me.