32. By deceitful means he will corrupt those who violate a covenant, but the people who acknowledge their God will stand strong and will act.
33. “The people’s teachers will help many understand, but for a time they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder.
34. When they fall, they will receive a little help, but many will join them with deceitful plans.
35. Some of the teachers too will fall in order that they might be refined, purified, and cleansed—until an end time, because it is still not yet the set time.
36. “The king will do whatever he wants. He will exalt himself, making himself greater than any god. He will say unbelievable things against the God of gods. He will succeed until the doom is completed, because what is decreed must take place.