FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

Actually we can say the Spirit of Christmas is with us the whole year if we do as you mention, fast and pray. In our house we read the scriptures each day and other daily writings of up lifting nature. We pray daily and use prayer
to help with other trials we face. I know that in Utah towns were closed on Sunday’s until the influx of people from other states began to arrive in great numbers. Now the big box stores are open every day so they cannot miss any sale. We are still admonished not to shop on Sunday’s and many do not. I think the day of Worship is actually the way the calendar is printed. On most calendars the first day of the week is Sunday with the last being Saturday. If we changed the Calendar to make Monday the first day then Sunday would be the last. It makes little sense to me to have the weekend the first and last days of the week.
Lucifer was given the power to strike men’s heel but man was given the power to crush his head. We come to earth with Freedom of Choice. As Marley said, “I wear the chains I forged in life.”

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

What I was thinking was that, from the start, God wanted the tribe's lines to be kept pure because Jesus was to come from one of them. But now that Jesus has come and fulfilled the mission He was sent to do, maybe that command is a little more relaxed ? - although I have my doubts. God has a reason for everything He commands us to do or not do.

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

We should've stuck with the Hebrew calendar instead of adopting the Gregorian calendar.

https://www.calendar.com/blog/gregorian-calendar-facts/

2. The original goal of the Gregorian calendar was to change the date of Easter.

Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582. Before this, Europe used the Julian Calendar. The Julian Calendar was a complicated lunar calendar that was put into effect by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. However, the system was flawed. It miscalculated the length of the solar year by 11 minutes. Over the years, the Julian calendar didn’t sync with the seasons — which became noticeable in the 1570s producing a calendar that was off by ten days.

Supposedly this fact concerned Gregory, but why? As Jennie Cohen explains on History.com, “it meant that Easter, traditionally observed on March 21, fell further away from the spring equinox with each passing year.”
Easter is a pagan tradition. We were commanded to keep the PASSOVER!

Christmas and Halloween plus other "holidays" are also pagan. And Satan is behind all the paganism!

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

Thank you for the information. I read the calendar.com article and I derive that as imperfect humans we can only develop an imperfect calendar. My conclusion is that we are doing the best we can and in doing so we incorporate the belief systems of other people to make ours more acceptable to them. Seems we are well accustomed to doing that as we are trying to accommodate so many others today that we have lost our way and our history seems to be being rewritten. I try to follow the guide of my Church and thereby hope be able to return into the presence of God.

Ginny_Dandy Loc: Pacific Northwest

You nailed it when you said, "...we are trying to accommodate so many others..." I blame the Catholic Church for a lot of it because they decided to adopt heathen/pagan traditions in order to grow the congregations. Then the c*******t Jews inserted themselves in place of the Israelites when they edited the Bible in the 18th century.

https://rense.com/general96/jesusnotjew.html

Jesus Was Not A Jew, Either By Religion Or By Ancestry

Jesus was an Israelite. He was a direct descendant of Levi through Aaron.1 Levi was a son of Jacob. Jacob was named Israel by God.2 Jesus was also a direct descendant of Judah through David. Judah was also a son of Jacob.3 Jacob’s sons were the first Israelites. Jesus was specifically an Israelite because he was a direct descendant of two of the sons of Jacob/Israel.4

Why then, does everyone say that Jesus was a Jew? Most people think that Jesus was a Jew, but Jesus was an Israelite, not a Jew. Israelites were the ones who were called the chosen people of God.5 Edomites, and their descendants, now called Jews, are not the chosen people. The fact that modern day Jews want us to think they are descended from Israelites is one of the greatest intentional lies, or misunderstandings, in all of history.

5. 1 Chronicles 16:13