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-nissi which they enlisted, by which they were animated and kept together, and therefore which they erected in the day of their triumph." Jehovah-nissi According to the Book of Exodus in the Bible, Jehovah-Nissi (Hebrew: יְהוָה נִסִּי) is the name given by Moses to the altar which he built to celebrate the defeat of the Amalekites at Rephidim. The first word of the phrase is the Tetragrammaton , the name of God. It is generally translated in English bibles as "the ". Jehovah is a Christian anglicized vocalization of this name. The Septuagint translators believed "nis·si′" to be derived from "nus"