12. In its rebelliousness it was given an army to put a stop to the daily burnt offering. It threw truth on the ground. The horn was successful in everything it did.
13. Then I heard a holy one speaking. Another holy one said to the one who was speaking, “How long will the things in this vision—the daily burnt offering, the destructive rebellion, the surrender of the holy place, and the trampling of the army—take place?”
14. He told me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the holy place will be made acceptable to God.”
15. Now as I, Daniel, watched the vision and tried to understand it, I saw someone who looked like a man standing in front of me.
16. I heard a man in Ulai ⌊Gate⌋ call loudly, “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”
17. Gabriel came up beside me, and when he came, I was terrified and immediately knelt down.He said to me, “Son of man, understand that the vision is about the end times.”
18. As he spoke to me, I fainted facedown on the ground, but he touched me and made me stand up.
19. He said, “I will tell you what will happen in the last days, ⌊the time of God’s⌋ anger, because the end time has been determined.
20. “The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kingdoms of Media and Persia.
21. The hairy male goat is the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is its first king.
22. The horn broke off, and four horns replaced it. Four kingdoms will come out of that nation, but they won’t be as strong as the first king was.