The Elect

[1 Pet. 1:2] Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Y’Shua HaMashiach: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Written after the death of the Messiah.
To the strangers scattered - literally, "sojourners of the dispersion"; only in John 7:35 and James 1:1 in New Testament, and the Septuagint, Ps 147:2, "the outcasts of Israel"; the designation peculiarly given to the Jews in their dispersed state throughout the world ever since the Babylonian captivity. These he, as the apostle of the circumcision, primarily addresses, but not in the limited temporal sense only; he regards their temporal condition as a shadow of their spiritual calling to be strangers and pilgrims on earth, looking for the heavenly Jerusalem as their home. Believers, if they rightly consider their calling, must never settle themselves here, but feel themselves traveler. As the Jews in their dispersion diffused through the nations the knowledge of the one G-d, introductory to Messiah's first advent, so Christians, by their dispersion among the unconverted, diffuse the knowledge of Messiah, foundation to His second advent.. "The children of G-d scattered abroad" constitute one whole in Messiah, who "gathers them together in one," now partially and in Spirit, hereafter perfectly and visibly.
Elect in the Greek order, comes before "strangers"; elect, in relation to heaven, strangers, in relation to the earth. The election here is that of individuals to eternal life by the sovereign grace of G-d, as the sequel shows. "While each is certified of his own election by the Spirit, he receives no assurance concerning others, nor are we to be too inquisitive John 21:21, 22; Peter numbers Gentiles among the elect, as they carried the appearance of having been renewed". He calls the whole Body by the designation strictly belonging only to the better portion of them. The election to hearing, and that to eternal life, is distinct. Realization of our election is a strong motive to holiness. The minister invites all, yet he does not hide the truth that in none but the elect wills the preaching effect eternal blessing. As the chief fruit of exhortations, and even of threatening, redounds to "the elect"; therefore, at the outset, Peter addresses them. The order of the provinces is that in which they would be viewed by one writing from the east from Babylon (5:13); from northeast southwards to Galatia, southeast to Cappadocia, then Asia, and back to Bithynia, west of Pontus. Contrast the order, Acts 2:9. He now was ministering to those same peoples as he preached to on Pentecost:
Foreknowledge meaning foreordaining love (1:20), inseparable from G-d's foreknowledge, the origin from which, and pattern according to which, election takes place. Acts 2:23, and Rom. 11:2, prove "foreknowledge" to be foreordination. G-d's foreknowledge is not the perception of any ground of action out of Himself; still in it liberty is comprehended, and all absolute constraint disqualified. For so the Son of G-d was "foreknown" (so the Greek for "foreordained," verse 20) to be the sacrificial Lamb, not against, or without His will, but His will rested in the will of the Father; this includes self-conscious action; nay, even cheerful submission. The Hebrew and Greek "know" include approval and acknowledging as one's own. The Hebrew marks the oneness of loving and choosing, by having one word for both, bachar (Greek, "hairetizo," Septuagint). Peter descends from the eternal "election" of G-d through the new birth, to the believer's "sanctification," that from this he might again raise them through the consideration of their new birth to a "living hope" of the heavenly "inheritance". The divine three are introduced in their respective functions in redemption.
Through sanctification, Greek, "in"; the element in which we are elected. The "election" of G-d realized and manifested itself "IN" their sanctification. Believers are "sanctified through the offering of Messiah once for all" (Heb 10:10). "Thou must believe and know that thou art holy; not, however, through your own piety, but through the blood of Messiah". This is the true sanctification of the Spirit, to obey the Gospel, to trust in the three-in-one.
The Spirit's setting apart of the saint as consecrated to G-d and the completing of G-d's choice (Gal 1:4). G-d the Father gives us salvation by gratuitous election; the Son earns it by His blood-shedding; the Holy Spirit applies the merit of the Son to the soul by the Word. Compare Num. 6:24-26, the Old Testament triple blessing.
Unto obedience is the result or end aimed at by G-d as respects us, the obedience which consists in faith, and that which flows from faith; "obeying the truth through the Spirit" (verse 22). Rom. 1:5, "obedience to the faith," and obedience the fruit of faith.
Sprinkling not in justification through the atonement once for all, which is expressed in the previous clauses, but (as the order proves) the daily being sprinkled by Messiah 's blood, and so cleansed from all sin, which is the privilege of one already justified and "walking in the light."
“ Mercy" met our misery; "grace," our guilt.
Now we know the ‘elect’ is both Jews and Gentiles.
The qualifications of the Elect were found in Col. 3:12-17
Put on therefore, as the elect of G-d, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Messiah forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of G-d rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Messiah dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the L-rd. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the L-rd Y’Shua, giving thanks to G-d and the Father by him.
The elect is used 17 times in Scripture. Here are some of them:
Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Matt. 24:2 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Are you working on the qualifications to be an elect?