If I may, how would He know they would believe? What or who sets them apart from the rest of humanity? Is there some characteristic that they have that is not from God that makes them special?
Because God stands outside time and see what is happening at any point along that line, so to speak.
What or who sets them apart from the rest of humanity?
I don't know.<
Is there some characteristic that they have that is not from God that makes them special?
There's nothing we haven't received from God, except I suppose, our sin nature.