“And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.”

If God desired to unite all things in himself, that is all things, then what do we think of the powers of evil? Only a few verses before (in Colossians 1) it is written that all things were made through Jesus and for him. We are talking about everything that has been created. This includes Satan. What is meant by “all things?”

“For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities