Who does Paul write to a lot in his letters, it seems to elected people in regions that where addressed as saints, and elected. Example is the twelve tribes of Israel, elect/saints of Rome.
Why is AMERICA not in the Bible? Just seems to be nations, and it would mean the surrounding Israel at the time.
I believe the word “elect” can refer to Jewish believers, and at other times I believe it can be in reference to those in who God chooses based on His foreknowledge for those believers in general in the New Covenant. I see the word “elect” in the below passage in reference to New Covenant believers because verses 32 and 34 includes the word “us.”
31 “What shall we then say to these things? If God
be for us, who
can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for
us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God's elect?
It is God that justifieth.
34 Who
is he that condemneth?
It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.” (Romans 8:31-33).
“Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” (Romans 8:30).
Predestinate would be another word for “elect.”
This is in reference to all New Covenant believers.
God elects according to His foreknowledge.
“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,...” (1 Peter 1:1-2).
Notice that the strangers in Galatia are called “elect” and they are “elect” according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. Meaning, God sees through the corridors of time, and He knows those who will respond to the good news. The question is: Will they continue until the end? Will they overcome? Will they work out their salvation with fear and trembling?
Judas was elected by Jesus to be a disciple, but He fell away. Judas started off following Jesus, but He later stopped following Him. Israel was an elected nation by God, but they fell away into chasing after other idols and sin.
