Claim. God created angels before humans, as His retainers and ministering spirits. Because humans were created as God’s children with dominion over all creation, humans were meant to rule over angels — not the reverse.
Elaboration. Per 2.1. Angels, Their Missions and Their Relationship to Human Beings, the Genesis “Let us make man in our image” plural is God speaking to the previously-created angels — not, as much Christian theology has held, the inner-Trinitarian plural.
Biblical examples of angels as God’s servants: conveying blessings to Abraham, heralding Christ’s conception, releasing Peter from prison. The Revelation angel escorting John self-identifies as “a servant”; Hebrews calls angels “ministering spirits.”
The structural ordering: “Because God created us as His children and gave us dominion over all creation, we are meant to rule over the angels as well.” 3 confirms humans’ authority to judge the angels.
This atomic establishes the structural-hierarchy premise that makes the fall a reversal of dominion (see dp-four-primary-fallen-nature-characteristics). It also pairs with Ch 1’s dp-humans-rule-both-spirit-and-physical-worlds: humans-over-angels is one instance of humans-over-spirit-world. When Lucifer envied Adam and seduced Eve, he stepped out of his proper subordinate position — the structural inversion at the heart of the fall.
See also. dp-lucifer-was-archangel-and-channel-of-gods-love, dp-humans-rule-both-spirit-and-physical-worlds