Daniel 12 is the last of three chapters describing his angelic appearnce and what the angel had to say. The angels words described a lengthy history of at least a few hundreds years of striving between the king of the north, the asian kings of Greece, and the king of the south, the ptolemies. Many people throw this chapter right into the end of the world and see antichrists and other things in it, rather than seeing it as about the time leading up to the arrival of Jesus the first time he appeared.