'Elect' in the Bible

And unless those days had been shortened, {no human being would be saved}. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce great signs and wonders in order to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect together from the four winds, from [one] end of heaven to the [other] end of it.