In picturing the struggle fo Satan against God, there is a dramatic defect in the fact that God is all powerful and can not be withstood. Where, then, is then is the suspense in the rebellion of the finite against the infinite? In fact, how is it conceivable that Lucifer would dream of opposing the unopposable? The implication is that until Satan's rebellion there had never been occasion for God to display his full might, so the angelic angels did not clearly understand how great that might was, and actually hoped to conquer. Thus the battle is made rational. Asimnov's Annotated Paradise Lost