We have Direct Access to our Lord Jesus.

A little bit of exposition from Colossians 1:16:

Through Christ, God the Father has created everything.  Paul emphasizes that through the words, “heaven and earth.” In other words, the whole universe.  Also, “visible and invisible.” That means, angels too.  Then he gives us a number of descriptors of things that are created through Christ.  These are “thrones and authorities, principalities and powers.”  These could be human kings and emperors, but they can also refer to angelic powers behind the thrones and authorities.  Paul probably means to include both.  The church, just like the Jews of Paul’s time, is always tempted to give too much value to these created authorities. The fact is, these were created through Jesus.  These powers owe allegiance to Jesus.

We are told later on that, in particular, the principalities and powers have been conquered through Jesus’ death. Colossians 2:15, “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it,” that is, in the cross.

There is something big going on here.  In the time of the Old Testament, the world was under the guardianship of angels.  In particular, we know that the law of the Old Covenant was administered by angels. Hebrews 2:2, Acts 7: 53 and Galatians 3: 19 all confirm this.  We know from the visions of Daniel in Daniel 7-11 that other nations had their angelic powers (perhaps even demonic powers) as well.   Now Jesus has come.  He has lived under the law that had been established through these angels.  And he has fulfilled that law. He broke the power of that law and supplanted the authority of the angels who administered it.

That means that there is no hierarchy between us and Jesus anymore. We, as sons of God, have outgrown our tutor, the law of the OT, according to Galatians four, and we directly serve our Saviour Jesus Christ. Colossians 2: 14 confirms this, “He has nailed it (the handwriting of the requirements that were against us) to the cross of Christ.   We are no longer subjected to these authorities and powers, but we are directly subjected to Christ through his death and resurrection.  As we are told in the very next verse, “he is the head of the church.”  This means that these powers have no control over the world anymore, not even an intermediary power.