is 360 years and the time that pagan Rome ruled the world begins in AD 31 at the battle of Actium according to the history in Uriah Smith's book Daniel and the Revelation and for 360 years pagan Rome ruled the world until in the year 330 they moved the capital of their empire from the city of Rome and moved it to Constantinople and historians mark that as the end of the time that pagan Rome ruled the world 360 years so in the narrative where pagan Rome is being addressed in Daniel 11 here in verse 24 as it continues on through history you get to verse 27 and it's still speaking about pagan Rome but it's speaking about the time period now when pagan Rome is about to leave this scene of history as the ruler of the earth and it says this and both these king's hearts shall be to do mischief and they shall speak lies at one table but it shall not prosper for yet the end shall be at the time appointed the end of what the end of the time period that pagan Rome shall rule the world was the year 330 and the time appointed was the year 330 the end of a time prophecy is the time appointed it's the time of the end two verses later still in the same history it's repeated it says and that at the time appointed he shall return and come toward the south but it shall not be as the former as or as the latter at the time appointed in 330 the power of Rome had been broken and ceased to have the ability to control the world as it used to verse 29 is speaking about this same fulfillment of the 360 years that pagan Rome would rule the world and Daniel defines the the end of that time prophecy as the time appointed further on in Daniel in verse 31 we of Daniel 11 we see the abomination of desolation coming into the narrative which is identifying when the papacy began to control the world in 538 and we know that other prophecies in Daniel tell us that the papacy would rule the world for 1206 years there's a time prophecy connected with papal Rome just as there was with pagan Rome and in verse 33 two verses after verse 31 where the papacy begins its time period to rule the world in verse 33 it's describing the persecution of the dark ages and it says and they that understand among the people shall instruct many yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame by captive captivity and by spoil many days this many days is understood to be the 1260 years of the papal rule just as when christ says except those days should be shortened in Matthew 24 he's also referring to the 1260 years of papal rule sister white comments on that