Miracle of Holy Fire Explained 

My Grandmother (God Rest Her Soul) with my Aunty and a group of friends was present at the Orthodox Easter many years ago in Israel, she explained that the Church was so crowded at the Eve of the Orthodox Greek Easter Sunday, that she could not enter the Church, she was one of many thousands who had to worshipped outside the Edicule Church, waiting for the Holy light, she said that what she and many thousands of witnesses like her witnessed that day stayed with her all her remaining life, my Grandmother and and my Aunty said that whilst in wait, a blue light came from the Church and went into the outer area, where this blue light lit the sky and thousands of candles held by thousands of worshippers standing outside the Church, including her candles held by my Grandmother, Aunt and their friends, which they brought with them from the UK to Israel for this event, spontaneously lit by the blue Holy light, which was followed by a warm uplifting spiritual feeling of what she described as having Christ's presence, from which many of the Israeli solders and police who were present for crowed control fell to their knees and others cried, they were all very moved by what they witnessed and probably from whatever they individually had experienced or felt at that given moment. Why does this only happen at the Orthodox Easter and has been happening for over 1,200 years, without fail, and why has it never happened at any other Easter of any other Christian Denominations? I am genuinely curious to know, after all, a Christian is a Christian, no matter his or her denomination. I would like to add that I have seen other videos attempting to imply that this is all a hoax and that the Orthodox priest smuggles in some method to ignite the candle or some chemical such as white phosphorus is used which self ignites the candles, which is unstable and cannot be applied to a timer to light all candles at same time of resurrection and most people attending have purchased their candles from a variety of different places, and many bringing the candles with them from their home countries/overseas; all seems very unlikely, however, this has been going on for 1200 years without fail, where such knowledge of self igniting chemicals will not have existed and if they did they will have been applied into war to protect the city from attacks by other religious groups, which never happened and obviously gas lighters will not have existed then to have been hidden to ignite the candle, it will have required an open flame, which could not be hidden, so these types of debunking attempts, I feel have no logical merit or grounds and often applied by those who are very insecure about their own religion or religious views, moreover, how can anyone explain this holy blue light that leaves from the doors of the Church, lights up the night sky with its blue light and ignites the candles of hundreds and thousands of believers who simply lift their candles towards the sky where this blue light brightens the sky and their candles are miraculously lit? there are those who try to argue that the Church sends out a charge of manufactured electricity into the sky which ignites the candles of the believers, which I find absurd, firstly no such technology actually exists today to create such a reaction and if it did it will electrocute and kill all before lighting any candles and secondly no electricity existed 1200 years ago. I am left with no doubt that this is the Holy Light of Christ Resurrection, which leads me back to my original question of why does this only occur within the Orthodox Christian religion and not in any other Christian denominations? in my eyes, mind and heart, a Christian is a Christian, no matter their denomination. So why is this not present in other Christian denominations, is it because the Orthodox Christian Church celebration of Easter is the correct date and the rest of the Christian denominations apply a a wrong date? or is it due to the secret Orthodox Easter Prayer only known by the Orthodox Patriarch that creates this holy light, or is it because the Orthodox Christians have a belief and faith in the appearance of this Holy light which emanates from such faith and belief?, or is it because the faithful ask God for this holy light and God provides? In respect to this holy fire from the lit candles does not burn, my Grandmother saw that some people would hold the fire on to their skin and plastic bags and paper and it simply would not burn anything the flame came into contact with and others who attempted the same, it actually did burn them, and anything they put to the candle flame it burnt, she said that she put the flame upon her skin and felt nothing, I would argue that this could be a psychosomatic reaction where the human mind can block out pain, but that did not explain how a normal plastic shopping bag would not burn or her Kleenex tissue paper in her bag would not ignite or any other items she had with her would simply not burn, YET, when the same candle flame was passed to her friend who was standing next to my grandmother, it burnt her friends hand, her friend asked my grandmother to gave her the same tissue paper my grandmother tried to burn, and in her friends hands, the tissue paper immediately burnt, the candle was passed back and forth between them where nothing my grandmother had would burn and anything her friend had would burn. The next day when they asked a priest to explain this, the priest said that the flame cannot burn those who are truly faithful, that was the only explanation given to her. Again, I fail to understand how this is possible, yet it is, it happened, not only to my grandmother and her friend but to many others who were doing the same and experienced the same. So whether we believe this or not, it happened and continues to happen and has been happening for 1200 years, so, not believing it does not stop it from happening. Orthodox Christian Arabs, Russians, Serbians, Romanians, Armenians, Coptic's, Ukrainians, Egyptians, Greeks, and other denominations such as Roman Catholics and protestant's who were present to witness the Orthodox Easter, all experienced the same and all moved to tears and Christian unity. My family members have been 2-4 times and each time has been a different experience for them. As my late Grandmother said, there are many thousands of people who attend, separating the curious from the serious believers is very difficult and borders upon becoming a mockery of the Holy Church and our faith in Christianity, with many forgetting that this is a Holy celebration, not a circus show for those who want to discredit Christianity or for those who need to witness and see to convince themselves to believe, and my Grandmother (God rest her soul) as usual, was right, I happen to agree her. Is this all based upon bringing about false beliefs or false prophets? im not sure if I buy into that theory, a holy blue light emanates from Christ tomb and from there it spreads to light other peoples candles, a holy flame that burns some and others does not burn, well, I do not see that as false prophet or promoting false beliefs, because all is shown to emanate from one source, in this case Christ Resurrections, so I do not think false prophets or any form of diversion from Christian belief is being diverted or perverted here, anymore than witnessing tears flowing from Christ or Virgin Mary statues and other miraculous events that take place in the Christian world, which attracts believers, if anything, it reinforces Christian belief and in others it opens up debates, ether way, Christ is on everyone's thoughts and lips. The fact is that those that do not believe, no amount of explanation will change their minds, and for those who do believe, no explanation is necessary, so I have to conclude by saying, if these things are miracles then we are all truly blessed, if they are not then it is irrelevant, whether the blue holy light is real or not or whether the holy flame does not burn those whos faith is true; what is important to me is that real faith is based just on faith, to truly believe without requiring to see any evidence of the existence of God, that is true faith, and if one can achieve that and be content with that, without needing to see anything that will convince them of their faith, then that person is still truly blessed.

I'm a proud Eastern Orthodox Christian from Uganda.

Jesus doesn't want religious flame, He wants the flame to ALWAYS be lit on the inside of us so we Live for Him.

I've had the honour and privilege to have been there and experience the Holy Light in 1995, it is truly Holy ground, 😁❤🙏

Christian Orthodox for life!!! The only religion in the world in which the fire of Christ truly lights as proof of the righteous religion

Orthodoxy is the only truth ☦️💙☦️

Thanks brother, i never knew this. i am catholic and from India. Holy Fire, purify me and bless me. strengthen me, help me to be a better person, amen

Nope. I’ve been raised Protestant. In the west. I just learned of the holy fire. I’ve felt him come down on me during a church service. This is beautiful.

God bless you and thank you for showing this truth. I am Orthodox and I know that a long time ago. You are very lucky to have chance to see this huge miracle.

Tomorrow May-1st we are excited to witness this miracle again,

I can't believe that it took me 52 years to hear about it. Awesome :)

Thank you Jesus. I just found the Holy Fire ceremony around 1a.m. this morning and watched it for the first time in my life. I made a vow to Jesus to learn about it today. Then I log in to do just that, and found this. God truly does work wonders in our lives. AMEN 🙏

I'm a senior Orthodox Christian and would love to see this in person some day. Hopefully I will get the chance! Even if I can't watch it from within the Church, I would love to see the excitement outside.

thank you Natan for the description, I wish to witness it me too some day. Some Greek people who attended describe it exactly in the same way

I had never heard of this miracle. Maybe all Christians should return to Orthodox Easter and Christmas. One can feel the excitement of the crowd just watching on UTube . I live in Australia and I hope to visit there one day. Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the World have mercy on us.

My dream is to go. My parents told me this story from a young age. I am Greek Orthodox and we believe in this

Repent and carry your cross and follow Christ.. Those who repent & accept they all received Jesus Christ in their hearts..seek heavenly kingdom first

Hope I can witness the miracle someday🙏💖🌷🇵🇭

As a convert to Orthodoxy in 2006, I stumbled upon a RU-vid video of the Holy Fire. In 2023 my Priest at my local Eastern Orthodox church during Holy Week mentioned the Holy Fire for the first time. It does seem that the Holy Fire is an Holy Orthodox secret between us, the One True Holy Orthodox Church. 2:41

Im a Catholic & wish to attend this one day…. ❤️

Thank you for posting the explanationf this wonderful miracle. I have watched the celebration many times without understanding what is it all about. Last year 2022 my Egyptian christian friend explained it to me for the first time.

My mom went to Jerusalem as an Orthodox Christian. ❤

Wow... I remember hearing of it,for some reason it was forgotten by me. Truly a great miracle to behold.

❤️☦️☦️☦️ Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah,Haleluijah,Holy Mortal❤️☦️

GLORY TO ONE TRUE MIGHTY GOD FOR HIS POWER AND GLORY

Catholicism, Eucharistic Miracles, Marian Apparitions. Nate, keep searching there is much more out there.

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Amen. God bless you!

Hi this was nice to see, from a Protestant point, although i am a cradle Orthodox Christian, i never got to Jerusalem. Living in East Tennessee foothills area. Thank you for sharing. Demetrios

Thank you God creator of all . thank you for the creation of fire . i know all miracles are through you . thank you great Universe for the miracle of fire . amen

I am glad that you are finding this Church the first Church in Christianity still thriving and living today.

Thank you so much for this video !

PERFECT video. You fully explain what this is and how it happens. SO many people are not aware of this!

Honestly today is my first time hearing about that. I love this miracle but I had sincere faith that Jesus resurrected before watching this. Jesus tells us that blessed are those who don't see. For these Bible passages about miracles I don't doubt, but I have a problem for trusting God in the present and future. I have OCD and I try to be in control because of the mind pressure. I know this sickness does not makes us sin, but sometimes it's a temptation to sin.

God bless you all! Blessed Pascha!

I am dumbfounded that in my 54 years of life , having been raised to believe in God and the death ,burial and resurrection of Christ I never heard of this wonderful miraculous event. Rabbit hole here I come . I have already shared this with my daughter who is away in college getting her degree in history as I don’t want her to not know of this amazing finding . I found it in the oddest way . I was listening to a podcast and the podcaster happen to have lived 5 years in Israel and was trying to pronounce the word The Holy Sepulcher, I looked it up to see how it was pronounced and now after reading I am at your video . Thank you for sharing this , I am absolutely fascinated.

Because there is only ONE LIGHT, ONE TRUTH, ONE WAY

I got all excited when I found the live stream. Lol! I went and grabbed me a candle to light because I wanted to participate! Lol! Guess it's not the same if I use my lighter. I have the flame inside me though. I love that I have found this tradition.

That is awesome, must be spectacular! Thank you for sharing🙏

Very good. Thank you ☦️🏅👑

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When my mom passed away God opens my eyes to see him and his an angel and my mom new image very beautiful ,but God allows me see his image just like a glory brightly star iam evanglical Christian ,we are worship only one true he will listen to us thank you heavenly father that love me and the one worship you,Amen

you are very lucky...thank you GBU

is it possible that because of white phosphorus?

Sorry pardon my ignorance. But I missed it, what part is the miracle blue light shown? I’ve watched it a few times but I can’t distinguish with that flashes etc Is there another video that shows the light in detail or show the candles being lit spontaneously? I’m new to this and have only just heard of this from my local church. So I would like to see a video of the light. I’m absolutely amazed by this Thank you God bless

It’s not the Greek Patriarch. It is the Patriarch of Jerusalem. The Pope has on occasion attempted to push his way to the front to be the one to receive the fire. Each time they try, the fire has skipped to the patriarch of Jerusalem.

❤❤❤ Massiah ,you touched me.your beautiful Holy Fire ,holy Spirit is true it touch me 12 years ago while I was there.persian from LA my video for this event is on you tube under mother pedar ❤❤❤for glory to God in highest 🎉🎉🎉

It's not "the Greek Orthodox Patriarch", it's the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem who goes into the Tomb. There is only one Orthodox Church, rather than "Greek" or "Russian" etc, and several Patriarchs, who are over cities and countries.

Thanks for the video Ive never ever heard of this b4!!?

Amen 🙏

Praise The Lord Zesus Christ Halleluyah Amen Lord please always giving urs Precious Blessings to us Amen🙏🙏🤲👍

Why doesn't the fure burn the people putting their hands in it? Pleas somone explain

God is good amen 🙏

Thank U and God Bless, U would make an excellent Orthodox Christian! 🙏☦️🙏

We will be going to see the light next weekend in jerusalem from Australia! Any tips u can give us? ❤

godbles u always u brother in christ from philippines with love❤❤❤

How very beautiful! Glory to God!

I can't believe i never heard of this wow what an awsome experience I watching someone tic toc that walks through Jerusalem what's a miracle. Talking about this. 🙏😁😍🥰♥️

So the light happens to come in a closed space with only one person in it?

Great video

The beauty of Orthodox Christianity

Amazing! When was that church built, if I may ask?

Jesus bless us. Wt I am fearing not allow in our life.plz be with my daughter n wt u gave little one in her womb bless her abudantly I beg u jesus.

The "most important ritual in Christianity"? What is your video description on about man? Did you forget about Eucharist and other sacraments?

This video It makes me cry

I have met some young Jewish people in my country (that are from Jerusalem) and I have asked them about Jesus light and...surprise... they told me that they never "try" that. Isn't that sad??? that people from Jerusalem don't believe in Jesus? I guess that they were not Christians.

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I'm not Christian and I think this tradition is very interesting.

I'm not Christian of any kind but I am a believer in the occult and have heard some miracles could be more FACT than fiction. This event, in my personal opinion, has gotta be the most spectacular, beautiful, emotional and powerful I've heard. Humanity comes together in one of the most celestial places on Earth to either see their savior and receive a blessing or simply join in the happiness and harmony and spread it to their friends and families across the neighborhood and the world. It's almost as if the heavens is drawing humanity in for world peace, love and tranquility. As it also reminds me of the Olympic flame and as a die-hard Olympics fan, there's quote I'm gonna say here from the London 2012 games: THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT

Proof that he lives and he’s here.repent your sins,and change for the good.💜✝️

ክርስቶስ ተነስቷል! Christ is risen!

If it doesn’t burn how does it spread to other candles/other items to be set on fire? It won’t burn skin but it will burn enough to set other things on fire??? Come on!?!?

If they only knew that the flame is alive and lives among you

Thank You....

God bless everyone. ❤🙏❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Anyone have video of this miracle?

So what is it, mirrors focusing sunlight when the sun is due East on the equinox? Rather obvious when you can see the light beam.

One day I too will visit my Holy place. Praise you Jesus 🙏

3:15 i wish i could experience this.

If you believe in it good for you. I personally believe in miracles and the power of God. He told us that we can make bigger miracles than Him. But we luck the faith to do it. I know God can do this but he won't do it because we want. If this was the way you describe it the doors would be opened to all to see. We all would be Christians Orthodox. There will be no Catholics, or Baptists like me or any other religion. God can do it, probably did it on many occasions, but not any time we'll be there for it.

Christ is Risen!

If it was true they would not do it IN SECRET IN DARKNESS. Truth is brought out to the light

So.many miracles happen în orthodox church this its only one small, it is other wich happen every day blind start see paralized start walking and many more iordan change curse when Isus get baptized

I want to go see it myself so bad!

This is amazing

So what is the object of this? Did those who witness it left everything to preach the gospel to the whole world?

This is not a way to worship Jesus Christ Follow His mighty words And this is not tomb of Jesus Christ

So nice to see the people of the Middle East paying their respects to the Fire deities.

I'm sad that there are people who believe in lies

0:40 to 0:47 i didn't understand. Please explain sir🙏🏻

How come they don’t broadcast live?!?? So everyone can witness this miracle?!?!

Peace

A curious Roman Catholic would ask,where in the entire bible can you find the Prophecy of this yearly, fire miracle.

Nice

i wish one day, i will be there

Who has the lighter

Good

wow

So someone go's into a secluded space were no one can see him, with unlit candles, passess out lit candles from a gap in a wall, and that's called proof of a faith, oh wait a minute, i seem to have lost me lighter somewhere

It’s not just the blue light the light holy light or fire appears differently every year. This only happens in the orthodox faith in Jerusalem it doesn’t happen anywhere else nor in any other religion it’s the holy apostolic orthodox faith