It's simple alright, but election is not according to the way you state it. While Christ was elected Savior by the Father before the foundation of the world, the verses below clearly state who those are that Christ will save: they that God had chosen unto salvation from before the foundation of the world. Read the verses closely, it spelled out quite clearly in them beyond debate.
[1Pe 1:2,3,4 KJV]
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
[Mar 13:20 KJV] 20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
[Mat 25:34 KJV] 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Try reading those verses again Rogerg.
[Eph 1:4,5 KJV]
4 According as he hath chosen us
in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto
the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.
This is the predestined goal.
He has chosen us in Christ
to be holy and blameless!
Not God has chosen us way before His crucifixion to be saved.
The Gentiles were grafted into Christ, the Gentiles were foreigners, strangers, without God.
You were "
ADOPTED" which means you were not the covenant people, not of the cultivated olive tree.
The Christ was predestined and the aliens, the Gentiles were grafted in, the Gentiles were
ADOPTED!!!
The way you read the scripture baffles me.
[Mar 13:20 KJV] 20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days,
no flesh should be saved...
'No flesh would be saved' tell me you can see this?
Do you see what that verse (Mark 13:20) is saying?
Please tell me that you understand that verse.
If God allowed those days to continue "
No flesh would be saved".
Unfortunately the verse (Mark 13:20) is a proof text that states that God never elected anyone to
salvation from eternity.
If God elected them to salvation, then no amount of days would make any difference.
I am struggling to fathom how you read, "
No flesh would be saved".
[Mat 25:34 KJV] 34 Then
shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
The kingdom was prepared from the foundation of the world.
For whom was the kingdom prepared?
Jesus states the following.
Matthew 22:1-10
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who held a wedding feast for his son. And he sent his slaves
to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come. Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened cattle are all butchered and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast!”’
But they paid no attention and went their separate ways, one to his own farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his slaves and treated them abusively, and then killed them.
Now the king was angry, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire. Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. So go to the main roads,
and invite whomever you find there to the wedding feast.’ Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests.
The paragraph above is screaming at you that those that were not invited (not chosen, not elect) were grafted in.
Then the invitation went to the uninvited, non elect, whomever, the Gentiles!
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