Aha: the answer to fear of spiritual powers is not a bigger chart of spiritual beings. Colossians says every throne, dominion, principality, and power is itself created through Christ and for Christ.

Who Jesus is — Colossians calls the Son the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, the one through whom and for whom all things were created, the one before all things, head of the church, and firstborn from the dead. Test the tradition: “firstborn” cannot responsibly be isolated to mean “first creature God made” when the same paragraph puts all created powers in relation to the Son as their creator and goal.