Gleanings from Daniel 7

"Daniel 7
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Daniel 7
8 ...before whom three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots,
–and they apply to that one of which he said he had…
20 ...a mouth that spoke very great things, [and] whose look was more stout than his fellows.

The specifications that are given in regard to this power are such that they absolutely fix to the Papacy the application of the prophecy:
1. It is established after the development of the ten kingdoms, and upon the ruin of three of them (verse 24);
2. It speaks great words against the Most High (verse 25);
3. It wears out the saints of the Most High (verse 25);
4. It thinks “to change the times and the law” of the Most High (verse 25);
5. And this dominion and power were to be held for “a time and times, and half a time,”—1260 years,—when the dominion should be taken away (verse 25).

But though the dominion was to be taken away…
Daniel 7
26 ...to consume and to destroy it unto the end,
–it appears that the power of persecution,—of making war upon the saints,—is only checked, or suspended, for a season, because, says the prophet,
21 The same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High." 

A.T. Jones