The "Elect" are nothing other than an elite hierarchy.
The meaning of the "elect" of God is explained to us in Scripture. Men do not "elect" themselves. It is "God who justifies the ungodly" and it is God who has named His family "from before the foundation of the world" and redeemed them by the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
"For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine ELECT, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me." -- Isaiah 45:4
"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... 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." -- Isaiah 65:9,22 "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." -- Isaiah 42:1
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... 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." -- Matthew 24:22,24,31
"And shall not God avenge his own ELECT, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?" -- Luke 18:7"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the ELECT'S sake those days shall be shortened...
"Put on therefore, as the ELECT of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering" -- Colossians 3:12 "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" -- Titus 1:1 "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." -- 1 Peter 1:2 "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's ELECT? It is God that justifieth." -- Romans 8:33
Are you a member of God's elect?
You beat me to it! :)