Structure, Hierarchy, Work
The Kingdom of Heaven is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17). Righteousness is the condition of being so properly aligned with the King that I think rightly and act rightly. There is a righteousness that could come through the laws Yahweh gave to Moses for Israel, but no one has achieved righteousness by that method (Galatians 2:21 & Galatians 3:11). The method by which we have attained righteousness is by being in Christ, as a benefit of our faith in Christ’s faith (Philippians 3:8-9).
The structure of the Kingdom of Heaven includes positions of authority over cities and nations in which the King has placed His servants to bring revelation and protection and provision and guidance, which are called powers, principalities, rulers, thrones, authorities, dominions by various writers of material that ended up as parts of the New Testament (Colossians 1:16; Ephesians 1:21; 1 Peter 3:22, etc.). Some references to the occupants of these positions call them dark (Ephesians 6:12; Ephesians 2:2, etc.). The seats are not evil, but some of the usurping occupants of them have been placed there by the humans they have deceived into exalting them and their evil intentions, such as the powers that rule cities or nations with the power of Islam, or sexual immorality, or mammon, or anti-Christ governments (Tehran, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, Rome).
The hierarchy of the Kingdom of Heaven includes the relationships between righteous servants of the King. The servants include spiritual beings who are properly seated in the positions of rulership over areas of the earth. The servants also include human members of ekklesia, who function as the family of the King, gathering as authoritative counsels in the earth (Matthew 16:18; 1 Corinthians 6:3-4, Matthew 18:17).
The work of the Kingdom of Heaven includes the ekklesia of Christ (authoritative councils, mistranslated intentionally by James 1 of England as “church,” which just means a building or temple) in the earth informing the powers, princes, rulers in the Heavenly places of the revelation His family has received about the King and His wisdom, some of which the angels and other Heavenly beings have not had understanding of (Ephesians 3:10-12), but have longed to know (1 Peter 1:10-12).
We have responsibility in the Kingdom of Heaven which has very effectively been hidden from us by 2 earthly rulers who wanted to usurp the rule of the King of Heaven: Constantine and James 1 of England. We need to repent and take up our responsibilities, because we will be held to account for the duties with which we have been charged.
Be awesome!