My take on Daniel's visions...

Daniel had 4 visions:

1. The metal man of empires culminating in broken feet
2. The beasts culminating in an iron monster
3. The ram and the goat
4. The folly of the kings of Persia

These are linked to the coming of Messiah. Messiah arrives like a rock that demolishes metal man. Messiah slays the little horn from the iron monster. Messiah destroys the latter day Grecian empire's king as well. The final king of Persia (or former Persia -now Iran) will attack Israel and Messiah will deal him out. The very next chapter, Jesus raises the dead in Christ and takes the faithful in-pneumos.

Where are we in Daniel, and what has happened so long ago as to be stale-sounding today? In each of he visions Daniel had, he was shown an aspect of the times of the Antichrist (the end of age).

If we could piece together a picture of it: There is moral degradation. strife even as Babylon enjoyed peace, the statue's feet crumble -there is geopolitical instability. In fact, right now there is almost east vs west, not yet the 42 months of the 10 king's reign. The iron monster has the Antichrist (little horn), it is written he will decimate the Jews and stand against Jesus / Christians(?), and America too perhaps. Finally there is the final king of Persia who will use sorcery and possibly alien help to try and conquer Jerusalem. Thus will we know the season of the Lord's coming. Not in great detail but sufficient IMHO.

More later...

So those who wonder about Daniel now know that he gives multiple simultaneous equations relating Christ to Antichrist, and that all together they pinpoint with some accuracy where we stand in God's prophetic timeline. But to keep our noses in the good book isn't going to tell us anything. We have to gather knowledge from the media and from the Spirit. Even so the Lord tells Daniel many will waste their lives and spoil their reputations trying to predict His coming.