Daniel 8:14-26

14He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored.”

15While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me someone who appeared to be a man.

16I heard a human voice calling from the middle of the Ulai: “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”

17So he approached where I was standing; when he came near, I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision refers to the time of the end.”

18While he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, made me stand up,

19and said, “I am here to tell you what will happen at the conclusion of the time of wrath, because it refers to the appointed time of the end.

20The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.

21The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king.

22The four horns that took the place of the broken horn represent four kingdoms. They will rise from that nation, but without its power.

23Near the end of their kingdoms, when the rebels have reached the full measure of their sin, a ruthless king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.

24His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause outrageous destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the powerful along with the holy people.

25He will cause deceit to prosper through his cunning and by his influence, and in his own mind he will exalt himself. He will destroy many in a time of peace; he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be broken — not by human hands.

26The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true. Now you are to seal up the vision because it refers to many days in the future.”