Ah, Israel is reference of the ‘lost’ tribes of the House of Israel, of which Christ first sent His apostles to minister ... Christ knew who they were and where they were, even though because of their idolatries the Heavenly Father divorced them and sent them packing to the Assyrian king about 200 years before King Neb came up and took Judah and Benjamin captive to Babylon ... Christ kept track even though the devil has made it his intent to sow seeds of deception...
Paul says the ‘elect’ were chosen before the foundation of the world... that means before Genesis 1:2... mortal men love to play church and claim they have the power and authority to sanction ‘saints’... The Heavenly Father already chose them.
I just love it when distorter of the WORD of God tell me what to ‘read’ ... got to play church.. making claims that will not hold a sprinkle of holy water.
Baal worshippers worshipped Bal.
Astarte worshippers worshipped Astarte.
You don’t worship Jesus, I know, but those two cults worshipped different deities. Baal is a male title. Hence the baal Hada.
You really ought to read the biblical books and also history books.
Furthermore, you seem to have no real clue about the canonized saints. Those aren’t the sole list if saints and that is and has never been claimed. On the contrary the canonized ones are those who are held to be the ones we know of who are exemplars.
Paul’s discussion on predestination. God has hardened the Jews to bring in the full number of elect gentiles, which in turns makes the Jews jealous. The result of this is that the full number of elect Jews come to Christ. The full number of Jews + the full number of Gentiles = the entire Israel of God. Hence, all of Israel shall be saved saved.
What Saint Paul teaches in Romans 11 is that a “remnant” of Israel has passed into the New Covenant, therefore, God has not cast them off. The Apostle offers himself as an example of such a one. Those of the nation of Israel who rejected Jesus are compared to the ancient Israelites who worshipped Baal, while the Christian Jews are compared to the “seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal.” Saint Paul never claims that the election of the Jews is permanent in the sense that they remain the chosen people even if they fail to accept Christ. What he did teach is that (1) they were the chosen nation in the Old Testament, (2) some of them — a “remnant” — have passed into the Church of the New Testament, and are therefore not cast off, and (3), the nation, as a whole, will also return to serving God in the true religion when they are corporately “ingrafted” back into it by accepting Christ.