Strictly speaking, Christians are the only people that God considers to be Jews, which is the subject of the article entitled Being Jewish is Not a Race. However, I will use the word "Jews" in this article to refer to those who falsely claim to be Jews today while rejecting Jesus Christ or following the religion of Rabbinic Judaism.
It's beyond strange that Christians can say that the Jews are God's chosen people, and yet they still affirm that they will go to Hell when they die. This is the cognitive dissonance created by believing a false doctrine.
The Bible says that "The Lord knoweth them that are his" (2 Timothy 2:19). If you are His chosen people, He knows you. What will He say to the lost on the day of judgement? "Depart from me, I never knew you" (Matthew 7:23). He could not say this to His chosen people.
Furthermore, we are to believe Zionists and Dispensationalists when they tell us that followers of the religion of Judaism, or "ethnic Jews" are God's chosen people, when the Bible says that anyone who isn't a Christian:
Yet, such are the chosen of the Father? The position held by Zionists defies all common sense, given what the Bible actually says about the lost, regardless of their ethnicity or particular false religion.
Elect simply means "chosen" (think selected, or a presidential "election", where a candidate is chosen). Therefore, if we can show that Christians are the Elect due to their faith, it also proves that Christians are God's chosen people.
This is an important teaching because it is very popular to hear in church today that the Jews, who have rejected Jesus Christ, are still God's chosen people, and they are therefore God's Elect.
However, the Bible makes a very clear distinction between the physical "Israel after the flesh" (1 Corinthians 10:18), and the spiritual "Israel of God" (Galatians 6:16). Israel after the flesh is not Elect because the "flesh profiteth nothing" (John 6:63), and God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34-35, Romans 2:10-11).
Notice the distinction made between physical Israel after the flesh and the election:
Romans 11:7
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
Above we see that the physical nation of Israel was contrasted with the "election", meaning they are not in the election. This is because over and over again Christians, not Jews, are called the Elect.
Notice the passages which are addressed to Gentile believers which call them the Elect:
1 Thessalonians 1:4
4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
Colossians 3:11-12
11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Both Paul and Peter open their epistles with the teaching that they are members of the Elect as a result of their faith in Christ:
Titus 1:1
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
1 Peter 1:1-2
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Therefore, Christians - whether Jew or Gentile - are who the New Testament calls the "Elect". By the definition of that word, that means that we are the "chosen" people, as Christians.
Continuing this study of "election" in the New Testament, there is a passage in Romans chapter 8 which connects "election" to "justification":
Romans 8:33-34
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
God justifies the Elect, according to the above. However, the only way to become justified is by Jesus Christ:
Romans 3:24
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
There is no way apart from faith in Christ to be justified (Acts 13:39, Galatians 2:16, etc.). Therefore, unless you are in Christ by faith, you cannot be part of God's chosen people, because the Elect are justified.
Even though Christians are called the "Elect" many times, as demonstrated above, there are still more powerful proofs that we are God's chosen people through Christ, in passages that explicitly discuss the "people of God", or God's nation, in the New Testament.
Rather than being something tied to ethnicity, or following the religion of Rabbinic Judaism, the Bible teaches that all peoples of the world have been brought unto God's household and nation by the blood of Christ, and may therefore be citizens of the true Nation of Israel:
Ephesians 2:11-13, 19
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Above is addressed to a Gentile church in Ephesus, and God tells them that, by virtue of Christ, they have been made "fellowcitizens" of the "commonwealth of Israel" - no longer "strangers and foreigners". This reinforces the fact that the only thing that matters in whether you are a member of God's chosen people is whether you have Christ or not.
Another passage, in this same vein, is explicit in stating that all Christians have been brought into God's chosen people by virtue of Christ:
1 Peter 2:5, 9-10
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Above states that because of Christ, we are now the "people of God" - "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people". These verses are completely ignored by Zionists, who wish to pretend that Christians are second-class citizens to followers of a Christ-rejecting religion. According to the Bible, such are not God's chosen people.
It was prophesied in the Old Testament (Hosea 2:23) that God would bring Gentiles into His chosen people:
Romans 9:25-26
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Verse 25 above is obviously in reference to Gentile nations, and in verse 26 being "God's people" is connected to the new birth, when one becomes a child of God by faith in Jesus Christ (1 John 5:1, John 1:12, Galatians 3:26). If you are in Christ, you are a member of God's chosen people, and if not, you aren't.
Therefore, the Bible is clear in stating that God's chosen people in the New Testament consists of a mixed multitude of Jews and Gentiles which believe in Christ. And, once you are a Christian, any other designation you have is superseded, as in Christ, there is "neither Jew nor Greek" (Galatians 3:28).
So, not only are Christians repeatedly called "the elect" - "the chosen", they are also explicitly said to be members of God's people and holy nation. Nowhere in these passages is any allowance made for non-Christians to partake in either of these designations, because Christ is the sole reason for the individual to be called "Elect" or one of "God's people".
Rather than being God's chosen people, because the Jews have rejected Jesus Christ, God's wrath is upon them:
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
John 3:36
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
The physical Jews have had the Kingdom taken from them (Matthew 21:43) and given to a spiritual nation consisting of Jews and Gentiles who are in Christ.
Israel having the Kingdom was always predicated on them keeping God's covenant and obeying Him:
Exodus 19:5-6
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Because the physical Jews did not keep the covenant when they rejected the Messiah, God has taken their nation from them. Many times in the Old Testament, God poured out His wrath on the physical nation of Israel when they disobeyed him:
Hebrews 8:9
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
However, this time, because they have rejected their Messiah, God's wrath has come upon them to the uttermost, as we saw in 1 Thessalonians 2:16. There is no longer a God-approved physical nation of Israel, because it has been done away with in favor of the spiritual nation made up of those chosen because they are in Christ.
And yes, that means that the group in the Middle East that calls themselves Israel when they aren't (Romans 9:6), and blaspheme God by saying they are Jews when they aren't (Revelation 2:9, 3:9), is under the wrath of God, and so is anyone who blesses them solely based on the fact that they follow Judaism (2 Chronicles 19:2: 2 John 1:9-11).
I hope it's been made plain to you that Christians are the Elect, we are God's chosen people, and that a physical Jewish nation has been replaced by a spiritual nation consisting of people from all nations under Heaven (Revelation 5:9, 14:6).
Beware of those preaching an anti-Biblical, racist, "Jewish" superiority doctrine. God does not regard them as any different from the Gentiles. They are equal in His sight. Anyone on earth can become a child of God, and heirs to the promises of God, by faith in Jesus Christ (John 1:12, Galatians 3:26: 1 John 5:1).