I don't fully understand Calvansim and it's tenants.
As a result my response may across as stupid and uneducated. Not unusual for me.
We know who saves and that is Jesus.
The new covenant is A.D. the period from when Jesus walked the earth as a man.
The old covenant is B.C. the period where his did not walk in the earth as a man.
Are God and Jesus not one?
If so even in the OC if they believe in God then defacto they believe in Jesus.
God promised a saviour a redeemer.
In the OC, Those who believed in God and walked in his ways knew that the redeemer would come.
Therefore the just shall live by his faith: True righteousness before God is linked to genuine faith in God.
Surely then those who live by faith do so when they place their faith in Jesus (A.D.) And in God (B.C.)
In the NC this faith is birthed by the Holy Spirit.
No idea how though in the OC.
So faith has a starting point.
If that is the case who started it? Surely the Holy Soirit.
Given that the Father, Son & Holy Spirit were the beginning then would they not know who would come to faith?
Yes I think the do.
Problem is we do not.
That's why we do not judge who is saved, will be saved or is not saved.
If we look at Jonah.
He would not go
Jonah 4:2
2 So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.
Jonah 4:10-11
10 But the Lord said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. 11 And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”
To me God knows who will repent.
As I said I don't.
That's why we should be like Jesus, who said
John 6:39-40
39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. 40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 10:27-30
27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. 30 I and My Father are one.”
Willing to be corrected, in love of course