User blog comment:Epakrios/Plot holes/@comment-12891159-20140314213410/@comment-5619706-20140315043656

Lucifer can't have made escape plans before he was imprisoned. If he knew he would be imprisoned, he would have made plans to avoid capture, not plans on how to escape. The plan itself wasn't set in motion until Azazel contacted Lucifer through the convent. I think what you mean is Lucifer managed to establish an hierarchy powerful enough to sustain demon-kind before he was cast into the cage.