The Everlasting Covenant

All “Gone Astray.”

And this brings us to the fact that in reality all the tribes are lost, “for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” ³ “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all;” ⁴ therefore when the Lord Jesus came, He said, “The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” ⁶ He declared, “I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” at the very moment when he was about to confer a blessing on a poor, despised Canaanitish woman, a descendant of those heathen who inhabited the land before the days of Joshua. EVCO 501.1

Here at last we have located the lost tribes of Israel. Not ten only, but all of the tribes are lost, so completely lost that the only hope of their salvation is in the death and resurrection of Christ. In this condition we find ourselves, and therefore we can read with delight, as pertaining to us, the promises concerning the gathering of Israel. Whoever acknowledges himself lost, and depends wholly on Jesus for salvation, will surely be saved, and will be numbered among the twelve tribes. EVCO 501.2