There doesn't seem to be any escape for those who God has chosen for glorification. If Satan can defeat God in particulars, then what's to stop him in an overall defeat? If God guarantees victory, then God is a respecter of persons. He gives some free will to be overcome by evil while restricting it in those he has predestined for salvation?
The whole is made up of the parts. If Satan can snatch one, he could conceivably snatch them all, and Christ is left the firstborm of potentially no brethren.
Given that Paul argues that there is no power in heaven or earth that can challenge God's electing grace, it stands to reason that God would pick would pick actual people rather than just some raw number.
Would anyone seriously argue that God loves mere numbers of indeterminate people rather than specific people? If this were the case, we would have a bible that instead of God loving Jacob and hating Esau, the authors would have merely pointed out that God loved one and not the other.
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:30,31
