Jehovah's Witnesses developed feelings of self-importance and craved worship. Satan influenced Adam and Eve to disobey God, and humanity subsequently became participants in a challenge involving the competing claims of Jehovah and Satan to universal sovereignty. Other angels who sided with Satan became demons. Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Satan and his demons were cast down to earth from heaven after October 1, 1914, at which point the end times began. They believe that Satan is the ruler of the current world order, that human society is influenced and misled by Satan and his demons, and that they are a cause of human
Jehovah-shammah Jehovah-shammah Jehovah-shammah is a Christian transliteration of the Hebrew meaning "Jehovah is there", the name given to the city in Ezekiel's vision in . These are the final words of the Book of Ezekiel. The first word of the phrase is the tetragrammaton . Jehovah is a Christian anglicized vocalization of this name. Easton's Bible Dictionary identifies the city in Ezekiel's vision as Jerusalem, and as a type of the gospel Church. Commentaries such as that of Matthew Henry draw attention to the similarities of the vision of the holy city, the new Jerusalem, in the closing chapters of the