User blog comment:Bharatram1/Who is stronger ? Lilith or Azazel ?/@comment-1509826-20120724190849/@comment-3481504-20120724200151

What are you talking about? He's one of the High-tier demons (among Lilith, Alastair and Samhain), and he was not locked up in the first place, so Lucifer made him the head of his plan. Plain and simple, really.