"Given your quote is from the NWT, which is corrupted,"
In all fairness to MrG, your mindset fixated onto the NWT and you immediately shut down. Go onto the Interlinears (not NWT ones) for yourself, click the number above the Greek words and LOOK at the definitions options given.
In the Interlinears sadly, you Cannot just swallow the English words bellow the Greek, they are not always correct, and have been used for a bias translation. But with the net these days, we have NO excuse for accepting and following these errors.
Don't forget the KEY theme of the Bible and the enemy is a play on words or with words, you only have to look where the twisty of words began in the Garden. End revealed from the beginning = soon after the beginning, lies entered, reverse that and it will be near the end before truth re enters = 2 Thes 2:8.
= 2 Thes 2:8.
