The Voice of Reason

In our reading tonight, I found the conversation between Satan and Beelzebub to be very interesting. Disclaimer...I could have completely read this the wrong way. What it seemed like to me was that Satan kept going on and on about how the battle with God was not over and how the Rebel Angels can still defeat God because now that they have fought him once, they know His tactics.  After Satan has shared all of this information, Beelzebub seems to be the voice of reason.  He keeps saying that God is almighty,and he is also trying to figure out what they should do while they are in Hell because he is trying to indirectly make the point that they are not going to defeat God, so they should try to make a life for themselves in Hell.