context: the nation Israel specifically is the "them" here.
not the church.
specifically too, it is a sign for them.
not the substance. a sign.
and that sign is explicitly to teach the nation Israel that it is God who sanctifies them - which is, they do not sanctify themselves.
how then do you imagine that you sanctify yourself by observing the sign of a covenant that was never made with you, and was superceded by a new and better covenant?
What had become "new covenant" was for the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Show me scripture that the gentiles have received a different "new covenant".
Deuteronomy 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Deuteronomy 29:15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
Why is the New Covenant for the House of Israel and House of Judah? Why was the Holy Spirit given on Shavuot on the very same anniversary the Old Covenant?
The Holy Spirit was given so that you would be empowered to accept your calling to want to obey.
But instead, you Gentile Christians who say you are not sons of Jacob are rebellious, which is to say same as witchcraft.
1 Samuel_15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast
rejected the word of the LORD,
he hath also rejected thee from being king. <-- double meaning
Revelation_5:10 And hast made us
unto our God kings and priests: and
we shall reign on the earth.
Rev 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Mat 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Mal_3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
The New Covenant has the gift of the Helper/Comforter/Holy Spirit to guide us to truth.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Psalms _119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and
thy law is the truth.
Daniel 9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might
turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
So you say "none of this applies to the church".
Laws Concerning Divorce
Deu 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deu 24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Deu 24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
Deu 24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Released from the Law concerning divorce and remarriage
Rom 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Rom 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
The New Covenant
Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD,
I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
So you say "none of this applies to the church".
One in Christ
Eph 2:11 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;
Eph 2:12 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:
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes
were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Deuteronomy 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Deuteronomy 29:15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God,
and also with him that is not here with us this day:
Jer_32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Dan_9:7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
Joh_11:52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
So you say "none of this applies to the church".
So where is the Gentiles New Covenant if none of this applies? No longer is the Covenant for just Jacob and the children of Israel, but Yeshua's purpose was so that the WHOLE WORLD can be ONE.
But you say "none of this applies to the church"
Heb 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers
and adulterers God will judge.
Heb 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Heb 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Heb 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have s
poken unto you the word of God:
whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Heb 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
So you say "none of this applies to the church". 
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