A favorite study of the dates or time frames of Daniel's prophecies are often much speculation. I am going to start with the battle between the ram and the goat. After the vision, Archangel Gabriel interprets the vision for Daniel. He tells Daniel that “the ram that you saw… these are the kings of Media and Persia”, and that “the goat is the king of Greece” (Daniel 8:20-21). Gabriel also tells Daniel that the second part of his vision that concerned the disturbing events in the temple sanctuary “will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end" (Daniel 8:19).
Daniel 8:5: “A male goat came from the west...”. Alexander and the Greeks came from the West into Anatolia (present day Turkey). Shortly after Alexander the Great came to power, he sought to conquer the Persians, and remove their influence from Greece. His first momentous, and very important battle in this conquest was the Battle of Granicus in 334 BCE. The significance of this battle and defeat of the Persians to the Greeks is the passing from Medo-Persian rule to Hellenistic rule which included the transfer of power over Israel and Judah from Medo-Persian to Hellenistic.
In the vision the goat representing Greece, defeats the ram representing Media-Persia, just as Alexander defeated the Persians at Granicus. Daniel 8:7: “And the ram had no power to stand before him [the goat], but he [the goat] cast him down to the ground and trampled on him [the ram]”. Daniel 8:21: “And the goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king [Alexander The Great]. As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.” Centuries after this was written in the book of Daniel, upon Alexander the Great's death, his kingdom was divided into four Hellenistic kingdoms that did not retain the first kingdom's power. Alexander's four generals were each given a kingdom to rule.
In the vision Daniel sees that the ram “had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.” The ram is noted for having two horns because they represented the two kings of the united Media and Persian Empires. These empires united in 550 BCE when the dominant Persian empire defeated the Median Empire. The reason one horn was higher than the other is because the two kings were not equal rulers, and the Persian Empire was more dominant. The reason the “higher” horn "came up last", was because the Persian Empire was younger than the Median Empire.
Regarding the second part of the vision that Gabriel says “will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end” (Daniel 8:19). He gives a disturbing description of the ruler to arise during the time of wrath, and also end times events that will happen on the Jewish Temple. Gabriel is asked, "‘How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled – the vision concerning the daily sacrifice , the rebellion that causes desolation , the surrender of the sanctuary [the Temple] and the trampling underfoot of the Lord’s people?’" (Daniel 8:13). To which Gabriel replies, "‘It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated’" (Daniel 8:14). Gabriel makes clear to Daniel again that the vision is "sealed up… [and] concerns the time of the distant future" (Daniel 8:26). (Therefore, the understanding of the vision is 'unsealed' now close to the time of the end.)
Day = year prophecy rule makes 2,300 days = 2,300 years. (Numbers 14:34) "According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years". (Ezekiel 4:5) "For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of years."
Year of the start of the Hellenistic rule influencing the Judaic faith is 334 BC. So -334 + 2300 = 1967 AD. (because there is no year zero the calculation requires the addition of 1) Summation: Daniel receives from Archangel Gabriel a interpreted vision of the Battle of Granicus in 334 BCE. Archangel Gabriel tells Daniel to add 2,300 years, which takes us to 1967 AD.
1967 is the year of the 6 Day War, when East Jerusalem (the Old City, and ancient capital) and the Temple Mount grounds were brought under Jewish control for the first time in 19 centuries. Temple reconstruction is closer at hand, when the "sanctuary shall be reconsecrated" (Daniel 8:14). Which will fulfill many other prophecies concerning its reconstruction in the time of the end. For example, Ezekiel chapters 40 - 48, Zechariah 14:21, Daniel 12:11. Isaiah 2:2. Think about the 7 year deal broken after 3 1/2 years in.
