Daniel 2:36-45 is a prophecy of the four world kingdoms that would rule the earth from the time of Babylon. These kingdoms would be Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek, and Roman. The prophecy states that during the days of the Roman empire God would establish His kingdom which would bring all other physical kingdoms to an end. Therefore, the kingdom of God had to be established during the Roman Empire. To teach that God is going to somehow bring the Roman Empire back together again in the form of the European Common Market or some other organization is a plain violation of the context and abuses prophecy.
Daniel 9:24-27 is a prophecy concerning the time between the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple which began in 536 BC and the time when Jerusalem would be destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. “Seventy weeks” is a figurative period of time representing the final days of the Jewish system and nation. The “abomination that makes desolate” is clearly spoken of by Jesus (Matthew 24:15; Luke 21:20) as the Roman armies surrounding Jerusalem. Premillennialist try to turn this prophecy into a “end-time” prophecy with the “great tribulation” taking place seven years before Christ’s return for the thousand year reign. Of course they must place a “gap of time” in which there was a “two thousand year gap in prophecy” to accommodate the fulfillment of this text.