Election in the Old Testament

[KUWN]

I would like to know if anyone can find one reference in the Old Testament where Election refers to salvation. I was challenged with this but could not find anywhere in the OT where election was a synonym for salvation. in the OT Election is simply being chosen to a position of privileged position. Oddly enough, the same definition is true in the NT.

For example, in Eph 1.4 says we are chosen in him to be holy and blameless. Also, Christ is called the Elect and because we are chosen IN HIM we share his election. Because Christ is holy, we share his holiness. Because he is righteous, we share his righteousness. It is important to see that we are chosen IN HIM and not IN ADAM.

Judas Iscariot is one of the chosen, but he was not a believer. Also, Israel is God's chosen people, and not all Jews are saved.

The problem as I see it is that we have been told that election is the same as salvation, when that does not hold up in Scripture. You will find people elected in the OT, but none to salvation. The same is true in the NT.

One other aspect to election, is that election is not to chosen while also God is not selecting others. The tribe of Levi in the OT were chosen as the priestly line, but he didn't deselect the other tribes.

Try to find one reference in the OT where it explicitly states that election is the same as salvation.

 

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For example, in Eph 1.4 says we are chosen in him to be holy and blameless. Also, Christ is called the Elect and because we are chosen IN HIM we share his election. Because Christ is holy, we share his holiness. Because he is righteous, we share his righteousness. It is important to see that we are chosen IN HIM and not IN ADAM.

I think this is exactly correct. When we are reborn, we die in Adam's humanity, and are born into Christ's humanity, as you say, sharing what is His, including His election,

Isaiah 42:1 KJV
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Much love!

 

[Taken]

I would like to know if anyone can find one reference in the Old Testament where Election refers to salvation. I was challenged with this but could not find anywhere in the OT where election was a synonym for salvation. in the OT Election is simply being chosen to a position of privileged position. Oddly enough, the same definition is true in the NT.

For example, in Eph 1.4 says we are chosen in him to be holy and blameless. Also, Christ is called the Elect and because we are chosen IN HIM we share his election. Because Christ is holy, we share his holiness. Because he is righteous, we share his righteousness. It is important to see that we are chosen IN HIM and not IN ADAM.

Judas Iscariot is one of the chosen, but he was not a believer. Also, Israel is God's chosen people, and not all Jews are saved.

The problem as I see it is that we have been told that election is the same as salvation, when that does not hold up in Scripture. You will find people elected in the OT, but none to salvation. The same is true in the NT.

One other aspect to election, is that election is not to chosen while also God is not selecting others. The tribe of Levi in the OT were chosen as the priestly line, but he didn't deselect the other tribes.

Try to find one reference in the OT where it explicitly states that election is the same as salvation.

I think is is a concept to study…

OT introduces mans ability to “CHOOSE”…and Gods “favored desires that pleases Him of what men shall choose”….

(Choosing IS Electing).

Following through the OT…a man “choosing / electing” to follow, trust, believe, “Gods “favored WAY” …. Thereafter itnteroduces Salvation….ie. God IS the Salvation…ie Gods WAY is how a man leaps toward receiving salvation…


OT focuses ON the mans CHOOSING…
Josh 24:
[15] And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

NT … keys in on men who HAVE MADE their choice…(election)i

1 Thes 1:
[4] Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

Perhaps…”choosing is the OPTION”…and “ELECTION” is having made a commitment to the choice.

The common factor IS what is the “option to choose”….and “having made an election of choice….”

The WHAT IS SALVATION.

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[Wick Stick]

Try to find one reference in the OT where it explicitly states that election is the same as salvation.

Election is not the same thing as salvation, but they are related. The election itself is to BE the people of God, to act as a nation of priests. But salvation IS something that is promised to the elect.

Virtually every OT prophet has some prophecy in which Israel (aka the elect) will be saved in the day of judgment, or restored after the judgment. In Ezekiel 37, they are even resurrected.

 

[JunChosen]

Scripture declares "For as in Adam ALL die" (1 Corinthians 15:22). But God in His love and mercy in eternity past and before the foundation of the world, elected some to salvation.

Thus, God in order to have a people for Himself sent His only Son to earth to save His people (elect) from their sins. Matthew 1:21.

Man in his own volition does not have the capacity to choose for God because he is "spiritually dead!!!"

Romans 9:27 reads:
"Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:"

Romans 11:5:
"Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace."

To God Be The Glory