Colossians 2:15

"And, having spoiled principalities and powers, (Christ) made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in (the Crucifixion)."

Is this the most important verse in scripture? Could be — this pretty much wraps it all up. God's victory over powers and principalities was accomplished on the Cross, and it is demonstrated further through the church (Eph. 3:10): As with Job, when the body of Christ suffers but does not turn away from its faith in Him, it humiliates His enemies. To extend the argument, we can truthfully say that Jesus was not crucified to redeem a fallen creation, but instead creation was established and allowed to fall so Jesus would be crucified. This is an inescapable conclusion to the declarations that He is the "Lamb crucified from the foundation of the world" (Rev. 13:8), that "the works were finished from the foundation of the world" (Heb. 4:3) and that His grace was given us "before the world began" (2 Tim. 1:9). The point is, we are not the center of God's reality; what is happening on this tiny creation is a demonstration of His supremacy over His enemies, the powers and principalities that swirl about us, and Christ is central to that demonstration, and was from before the beginning.