User blog comment:KillRoy231/SPOILER's return/@comment-1031724-20190125055524

So, if you've seen Damaged Goods, or just read about it as I have, Nick's still Nick, meaning Lucifer hasn't been revived yet coz if he has, he'd have possessed Nick again for sure, Nick wants him back.

So, a number of possibilities as to why Lucifer hasn't been revived yet:


 * It's taking him a while to fully wake up in physical form in the Empty (due to being an archangel), saw how he was in a skeletal form)
 * It's taking Cosmic Entity a long time to actually revive him. (Again, coz he's an archangel)
 * It was Cosmic Entity that awakened (due to his black liquid form), and we were just meant to think it was Lucifer because of the red eyes, or else the writers just changed their minds. I'm not sure whether Cosmic Entity has red eyes, though.
 * Or, maybe he started to wake up but Cosmic Entity took measures to prevent a second angel or demon from waking up in the Empty, and made him go back to sleep before he could fully wake up (since he couldn't get Castiel back to sleep when he was awake), but before he could go back to sleep himself, he sensed the death of a nephilim...