What changes between the fourth beast’s persecution and the final judgment?

In Baltasar's first year Daniel dreams on his bed and writes a short account. Four winds strive over the great sea, and four beasts emerge. A lioness has eagle's wings; these are plucked, and it stands like a man with a man's heart. A bear stands to one side with three rows in its mouth and teeth and is told to devour much flesh. A leopard has four bird's wings and four heads, and power is given to it. The fourth beast is terrible, with iron teeth; it eats, breaks and tramples what remains and has ten horns. A little horn rises among them, uprooting three, with human eyes and a mouth speaking great things.

Thrones are set, and the Ancient of days sits in white garments, with hair like clean wool, on a fiery throne with burning wheels. A stream of fire flows before him. Thousands of thousands minister, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stand before him; judgment sits and books open. Because of the horn's great words the beast is slain and its body burned. The other beasts lose their power but retain life for an appointed time. One like the son of man comes with heaven's clouds and is presented before the Ancient of days. Power, glory and an everlasting kingdom are given him, and peoples, tribes and tongues serve him.

Troubled, Daniel asks one standing nearby for the truth. The beasts are four kingdoms rising from the earth; the saints of the Most High will possess an everlasting kingdom. Daniel asks especially about the fourth beast, now described with iron teeth and claws, and its horns. The little horn makes war and prevails against the saints until the Ancient of days comes, judgment is given and the saints obtain the kingdom. The fourth kingdom devours the earth; ten kings rise from it, followed by a mightier king who brings down three, speaks against the Most High, crushes the saints and thinks to change times and laws. They are given into his hand for a time, times and half a time. Judgment then removes his power, and the kingdom belongs to the saints' people, with all kings serving and obeying. Daniel remains deeply troubled, his countenance changed, and keeps the matter in his heart.

The edition identifies the beasts with Chaldean, Persian, Grecian and Roman kingdoms, while also offering Alexander's successors, particularly Asia and Syria, for the fourth. It explains the horns as kingdoms or successor kings figured in Antichrist. The little horn is commonly interpreted as Antichrist, but may mean Antiochus as a figure. Three and a half years is described as the supposed duration of Antichrist's persecution. These are edition interpretations, not names supplied by the vision itself.