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 has been used in the "Revised Version" of 1885, the "American Standard Version" in 1901, and the "New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures" of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1961. At , where the King James Version has "Jehovah", the "Revised Standard Version" (1952), the "New American Standard Bible" (1971), the "New International Version" (1978), the "New King James Version" (1982), the "New Revised Standard Version" (1989), the "New Century Version" (1991), and the "Contemporary English Version" (1995) give "" or "Lord" as their rendering of the Tetragrammaton, while the "New Jerusalem Bible" (1985), the "Amplified Bible" (1987), the "New Living