Agreed... this is what Romans 11:2 is saying... they were "known" ['which He foreknew';
Strong's - "know (before)"] before the time Romans was being written
(i.e.
way back in the OT times when God "chose" them and worked through them,
in this earth/world )... the understood QUESTION (Rom9-11) basically being, "what of the promises made
to Israel? [where are they??]"
That is how I understand it. = )
Then there's the word "fore-hoped" in
Ephesians 1:12, "G4276 -
proelpizo / proēlpikotas " (pretty much speaking of the same OT time-frame... that is, before Christ came)