Men are elected before the world was.eph1:3-11
Men are KNOWN of God by God...
BEFORE the WORLD was, BEFORE the EARTH was revealed, BEFORE man was CREATED and MADE.
God FOREKNEW, EVERY Created man, and EVERY Made man...BEFORE it Came to Pass that ANY Created man was Created, and ANY Created man WAS "MADE'.
Absolutely God foreknew WHICH men WOULD be Created, WHICH men WOULD become MADE, and WHICH men WOULD REJECT HIM, and DIE without having BEEN "MADE" Whole.
HOWEVER....MEN "DID NOT KNOW".
Men did NOT know, they would be created.
Men did NOT know, what they would ELECT.
Men did NOT know, God created them, and at the Election of the Man....God WOULD MAKE the man "CHANGED".
Each of those sinners elected confess Christ openly "when" the Spirit quickened them at new birth.
No, that is not when.
Confession is made BEFORE a man is quickened with the HS and Seed of God, birthing the man a New spirit.
Hearing, Reading, Learning, Following is the Point a man BEGINS receiving measures of Faith from God, preparing the man FOR Commitment to Elect God.
The Confession of man, is the POINT a man IS notifying God of the mans ELECTION of God.
THEN thereAFTER...God responds with ELECTING the man...
forgiving, crucifying the mans body, washing the mans body, anointing the mans body (sanctifying), MAKING the man Justified to be "set side unto God Only". (The Kings SEAL).
Restoring the mans soul,
Quickening the mans spirit,
Circumcising the mans heart,
Gods Spirit indwelling with the man.
The man THEN in FULL- faithfulness TO and OF God.
The man TO God...OF Gods Power to Keep the man To and Of God.
Glory to God,
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