The finite number of “election” God said “I have reserved to myself” are the human beings in the King James Bible called “saints” “sons of God” “a new creature” “vessels of mercy” “they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years” “the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded”. The “it” in previous sentence is “the knowledge of the truth”. Aforementioned human beings will “come unto the knowledge of the truth” during this earth age while “the rest” will “come unto the knowledge of the truth” during “the thousand years” “Lord’s day” “the day of the Lord Jesus” “And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years” “To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions” “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come” “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh” “neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh” “circumcision is that of the heart” [circumcision is that of the flesh thoughts and feelings of the heart] “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh” “But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law” “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” “For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” “For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh” “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be” “And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God”. The apostle Paul wrote “For I know that in me that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not”.
English “good thing” in previous sentence was translated from Greek adjective 18 agathos Matthew 19:17 Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19 all confirm there is none good/agathos but one, that is, God.
English “flesh” “carnally” and “carnal” above and throughout the New Testament were translated from Greek noun 4561 sarx being the flesh embodiment of all human beings.
The bible says: there is none good/agathos but one, that is, God. Paul wrote in my flesh, dwelleth no good/agathos thing. The finite number of “election” God said “I have reserved to myself” endeavor to transition from flesh thoughts and feelings to become entirely God’s spiritual thoughts and ways. In order to suppress pride God’s “election” will not know if they complete the transition until they take their last flesh breath. English “for” underlined above will be defined in next post.