²⁶ After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death^(A) and will have nothing.^[a] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood:^(B) War will continue until the end, and desolations^(C) have been decreed.^{(D) 27} He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’^[b] In the middle of the ‘seven’^[c] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple^[d] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed^(E) is poured out on him.^[e]”^[f]

³ Don’t let anyone deceive you^(A) in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion^(B) occurs and the man of lawlessness^[a] is revealed,^(C) the man doomed to destruction.

⁷ It was given power to wage war^(A) against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.^{(B) 8} All inhabitants of the earth^(C) will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life,^(D) the Lamb^(E) who was slain from the creation of the world.^[a](F)

⁹ Whoever has ears, let them hear.^(G)