A time, and times, and half a time… That is, three years and a half; which is supposed to be the length of the duration of the persecution of Antichrist.
7:26. And a judgment shall sit, that his power may be taken away, and be broken in pieces, and perish even to the end.
7:27. And that the kingdom, and power, and the greatness of the kingdom, under the whole heaven, may be given to the people of the saints of the most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all kings shall serve him, and shall obey him.
7:28. Hitherto is the end of the word. I, Daniel, was much troubled with my thoughts, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the word in my heart.
Daniel Chapter 8
Daniel's vision of the ram and the he goat interpreted by the angel
Gabriel.
8:1. In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar, a vision appeared to me. I, Daniel, after what I had seen in the beginning,
8:2. Saw in my vision when I was in the castle of Susa, which is in the province of Elam: and I saw in the vision that I was over the gate of Ulai.
8:3. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold a ram stood before the water, having two high horns, and one higher than the other, and growing up. Afterward
A ram… The empire of the Medes and Persians.