That's... questionable. The thing about the Primordials, even before they were broken and became the Yozis, is that they're functionally insane idiot savants. They have anywhere from limited to no understanding of things that are outside of the concepts they embody. They don't even understand why the humans rebelled against them in the first place, thinking it all the fault of the gods for putting the idea in their silly little mortal heads - to them the natural state of mortals is for them to bow down in terrified awe of them and anything outside of that is some crazy mistake that needs fixing.
Each and every last Yozi has some kind of cosmic level mental disorder, when it comes down to it. Malfeas was once the Holy Tyrant, and if you don't immediately obey his orders he will never, ever try to consider your point of view and try to convince you to do what he wants based on that - trying to consider someone else's wants and needs literally hurts him. No, his go to solution is to scream at you and beat the shit out of you if you're not obeying, because hey it works on the First Circle Demons so why shouldn't it work on you? The Ebon Dragon on the other hand might find himself in a situation where brute force is the optimal solution, but he'll try to use guile instead because he literally can't do it any other way.
So if Orabus understands the concepts of past and present, then it is likely he understands them poorly or in a very different way than you or I would.
