Who are Gods elect?

Are the elect, certain people, or are the elect, ALL people?

First, lets clarify what "elect"means in the Bible, when referring to people, in both Hebrew, and Greek.

ELECT: HEBREW	bachiyr baw-kheer'
Definition:	chosen, choice one, chosen one, elect (of God)
ELECT:GREEK	eklektos ek-lek-tos'
Definition:	1) picked out, chosen
	1a) chosen by God
	1a1) to obtain salvation through Christ
	1a1a) Christians are called "chosen or elect" of God
	1a2) the Messiah in called "elect", as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable
	1a3) choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellence preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians

Now, who does the Bible say, are the elect of God?

• Isaiah 65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
• Isaiah 65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
• Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
• Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
• Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
• Mark 13:20 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.
• Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
• Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
• Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
• Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
• Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
• 2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
• 1 Peter 1:2 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.

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Scripture is very concise on the eternity of the elect, and does not say any place, that any of the elect, will be lost in fact, Scripture assures the reader, that the elect, spiritually, are basically untouchable, sealed by God Himself, in Christ.