Who are the elect of God?
Well, those who interpret the Bible through a dispensational lens will claim
that the physical nation of Israel makes up the election.
Now, if we were still in the Old Testament, that would absolutely be true.
However, the death of Christ not only brought about a new covenant,
but with it, a reelection of God's chosen people.
The Bible says in Romans 11, verse seven,
what then Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for,
but the election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded.
Now, if Israel remained the people of God in the New Testament,
that verse would make absolutely no sense
because it's clearly making the distinction between the two.
The truth of the matter is, is that the elect of God is no longer made up
of a physical nation, but a spiritual one based off of their faith in Christ.
The Apostle Peter, when writing to Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia,
Asia, and Bithynia, Gentile nations, states that they are the elect,
according to the foreknowledge of God, through the sanctification of the Spirit
unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ,
referring to safe people.