Book Synopsis: Revelation 14:10-11 and 20:10 seem to be some of the strongest verses in the Bible supporting the idea that the wicked will be tormented for eternity. Their language seems to be quite clear, “The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever.”  Hell is Made Holy demonstrates that this language is very likely intentionally borrowed from the symbolism of the endlessly rising smoke of the Old Testament sacrificial system where it has nothing to do with endless torment.  Additionally, Hell is Made Holy explores numerous other unique intentional pointing phrases in Revelation which are pointing to the same phrases being used in the ancient Greek and Aramaic Old Testaments. These Old Testament Bibles were the Bibles of John’s ancient audience of Revelation. In the Greek and Aramaic Old Testaments these phrases are defined and used in ways which are clear indications that the wicked ultimately cease to exist as described by the doctrines of annihilationism, conditional immortality, or destructionism. 

         The Christian doctrine of annihilationism primarily emphasizes that the judgment of the wicked results in their total cessation of existence, while conditional immortality places its main emphasis on the concept that endless immortality is only granted by God on the condition that a person chooses to have faith in Jesus.  The two doctrines are nearly equivalent in meaning, and are frequently used as synonyms.  Destructionism is also a synonym to the two doctrines, but is more rarely used.  Conditional immortality intentionally places a greater emphasis on the concept that part of the judgment of the wicked involves some amount of punitive suffering before their total cessation of existence.  In spite of the specific emphasis that conditional immortality places on punitive suffering before annihilation, the vast majority of Christians who claim to embrace either annihilationism or conditional immortality also believe that the judgment of the wicked will include some suffering before total annihilation of both the body and the soul.