Leviticus 26-27

Leviticus 26

• If you obey the rules, there will be blessings from God, particularly if you obey you will have food in abundance. If you do not obey, then essentially the opposite happens. Others will take the food away. Diseases will come. If that doesn't work to change the heart, then worse things will come, such as no food will grow at all. If that doesn't change the heart... you get the idea. It gets worse. God will punish seven times over at this point. Wild animals take the kids, cattle, and maybe even you. Wow. 

Leviticus 27

• Anyone who makes a special vow to dedicate a person to the LORD by giving the equivalent value pays a set price by the gender and age of the person. They can also vow an animal and that animal becomes holy. You can't dedicate the firstborn, however, as it is already belongs to the LORD. The tithe belongs to the LORD.

Leviticus 25

Leviticus 25

• Interesting. The land is to have a year of rest, without pruning and such. Six years work it, and the seventh year, let it work itself. How about that. I bet God blessed those who honored that...
• Every fifty years a Jubilee. The Jubilee represents some kind of redemption, where things are returned to people, mainly property, but I think it may apply to other things as well. God reminds them over and over that he brought them out of Egypt, that he is giving them the land and that they should listen and obey the commands so that they may prosper.

Leviticus 22-24

Leviticus 22

• Rules of who can eat sacrificial food.

Leviticus 23

• Rules and preparations for feasts

Leviticus 24

• Two things, bread and oil for the priests and a blasphemer put to death. The blasphemer was a teenager who, in his anger with his mom, had a slip of the tongue.

Leviticus 21

Leviticus 21

• God makes us Holy. Nothing else can make me Holy. It is important to understand that God is the one and nothing I say or do can make me Holy. God is the Lord, not me.

Leviticus 20

Leviticus 20

• This is a chapter about what to do when people are caught in having sexual relations with family and animals. It normally results in being stoned to death, although there is a a few times that stoning isn't the choice of punishment. A man marries his mom, well that brings about death by fire. Others call for removal from the group, or to be cut off from the group. And sometimes still it says to just put them to death. Purity is a very serious issue, as it can lead your heart astray, to the point that it doesn't want to come back to God.