God did not foreordain, or predestinate, by name the individuals that would be taken from earth into the heavens to make up this government, but he did foreordain that such a group would come into existence according to his divine will. Who would be selected to make it up, God would determine later, after his Son had come to earth and had opened the way to heavenly life.

Yes, in him, in union with whom we were also assigned as heirs, in that we were foreordained [not as individuals but as a group of fixed number] according to the purpose of him who operates all things according to the way his will counsels.”​—Ephesians 1:8-11; Revelation 14:1-4.