CHRIST ABOVE THE ANGELS AND MEN

See that God is so powerful, so full of divinity, that all aspects of himself, his features, his character, His words, thought are alive. They are spirit. They have a life of their own. His countenance is His glory. His glory is so powerful in their own being that they are Princes in the heavenly realm.

This should explain the beings around and with Him In visions of the prophets.  

Christ is the word of God. The word that was both inside God, and that He spoke. His son. Closer even that his other attributes. Closer than his goodness,  kindness, patience...as words flow out of one's being, and being God, His words were Himself being expressed unto whatever the purpose. Thus Christ sits above the Angels and other Princes of the heavenly realm.

Then there is man, fashioned "in the image of God..."

Man is a workmanship of God. Like other elements associated with God, man is spirit. Living and breathing, and would be like the other beings before God were it not for the bondage of death. Death is the greatest enemy of Man.  It is the power of death that crystalized humanity into flesh. Thence, the experience of life is limited.

When Christ was born as a man, he bound himself in the ream of death, willingly, so that by confronting it and setting Himself free, death, which is a principality of darkness, would be defeated. That was the purpose of  Christ's descending into death. It had to be done because men were bound by death to the extent that the life which He was reintroducing to our world was blocked out. Far from the reach of men since the fall and ... death. The power of death gripped the earth, and held men captive.

He succeeded, and in the process reopened the realm of men to the supernatural power that is in all things that proceed from God ... 

Ephesians 4:

8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

THE ORIGIN/KNOWLEDGE OF SIN/WICKEDNESS

The devil, who personifies iniquity, was created as a precious cherub, a glory in fact, of the most high. (The glory of God is his power. Cherubim are in fact principalities of the heavens, Princes over realms or powers of the Most High.) Iniquity is therefore, as a matter of fact, a currupted principality. A heavenly place whose good was, is destroyed, turned into darkness/evil.

This is the description of a prince, a cherub serving before God. One who fell into iniquity;

Ezekiel 28:14 |
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

He did not create him(the devil) to destroy him per se. Just like he did not create man just to destroy him. If you read Ezekiel 28, the devil, the great Cherub is only sent away when iniquity is found in him. He bought his ticket out of the presence of God.

V.15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Now we know that everything on earth has no ability to exist if not by God. The question is how that iniquity was.

Colossians 1:16 | 
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

God did not create iniquity (sin).  But  the knowledge of how to create it. The knowledge that he had, though not keeping it away from Adam and Eve,  told they not to take for their own use. They did become curious later and sought after the knowledge - of evil in addition to knowledge of good. Not just to know how to do good, but how to do evil. For they had  not done evil. They did not know how to convert the beauty of God's holiness into an abomination. They learnt it on that day.

 That is the wisdom she observed when she listened to the serpent;

Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Now you would wonder where that evil was in a perfect world. Using the knowledge available to them from that day, both the Cherub(who already had the knowledge) and the humans actively propagated iniquity.  And There is formular To It.  That formula is what you may call the knowledge of evil.  It is the intimate communion with what is termed as the flesh (which in actual fact is a spiritual power/ruler of darkness). Or the works of the flesh. The rising of the flesh signifies the death of Man,  just as God said,

Gen 2: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Of all the powers and principalities that wrestle against men, this "flesh" is the greatest of the battle. So seductive and easily empowered, but a tenant that fights to keep his tenure. He can has even turned against his many hosts to torment them.

Here is the formula in the creation of evil. Which works the arisen ruler over the spirit of man, the flesh does commit in men. The first was rebellion. Rebellion against anything that qualifies as righteousness.  And second, the glory of God, which both the cherub and the man were in literal terms, was desecrated by the two, being converted into a "vain" glory. This done by a lot of vain, (unexplained useless activity with no gain) indeed all activities that may be described as "sin" or " wickedness". They are just done for the heck of it. That is how iniquity, even now, fills the earth. Both man and the fallen cherub know when they convert the beautiful glory of God into a vain thing, an iniquity.

The following refers to the wicked men, and as demonstrated, their fall into wickedness (iniquity):

Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.