11¶Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
This is us before we believed .As romantic as we'd like it to be about us Gentiles. God foreknows Israel his first born son . We are never known as individuals before we believe .