AMORPHOUS PRINCIPALITIES

A principality could also be a land mass, say a continent, the extents of a particular body of water or a collection of several at the same place, illustrated by islands like the Carribean islands of the Pacific ocean.

Weather patterns can also create a form of principality. So can currents and and seasons.

The word principality is therefore very fluid, and can be construed to even reflect a particular time period or an age. The same is perceive in scripture as Daniel interprets King Nebuchadrezzars dream of the five-part, metalic figure that was representative of five different time period of rule, which though would later be fulfilled in the times and in a later age in a different form, later represented in Daniel Chapter 7, 8 and 11. 


All these functions of principality make interpretation of the prophesies of the bible very confusing. Putting tags on a particular place on the earth as the referenced principality is tricky. This functions is one of the major seals used in closing up prophesy. Let us take the lion for example. One place, it is the prophetic heritage of Judah(Gen 49:9), referred again as being responsible for laying Israel waste(done by Assyria(Jer 2:15,5:6.)) In Daniel 7, the lion is one of the major powers of the last days of the age, while in Revelations 5:5, Jesus is the Lion of Judah who takes over the reign of the Kingdoms in the end(Dan 7:9,14). This is actually a full cycle of a specific principality. For this reason, several nations can bear a similar reference in name, depending on their prophetic heritage, their beginning, or simply, the current state. This reference can further be shared with an age of a similar heritage. This is common with reference to the nation of Israel and the current age in general. The physical is often used as a similitude for the spiritual. This is especially the case for many nations of the world, and even the twelve tribes of Israel individually. All this is in an effort to seal the prophesies. The seal is broken when their fulfillment is very near, a reason why John was urged to leave most part of his prophesies unsealed. It is also why it is drastically different from the previous prophesies. He records the pictures of the principalities as they are in the spirit. The book of Hosea, for example, is as much written to the nations of this world and their spiritual principalities as it is written for the twelve tribes of Israel. Egypt would also represent the preceding age, and the coming is represented by the birth forth of Zion or the Earth(Is 66:8,9Rev 12:13). This was first fulfilled in 1948 by the birth of the new nation of Israel, the action itself becoming a prophesy on its own.