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 1611 "King James Version", "Jehovah" occurred seven times. In the 1885 "English Revised Version", the form "Jehovah" occurs twelve times. In the 1901 "American Standard Version" the form "Je-ho’vah" became the regular English rendering of the Hebrew , all throughout, in preference to the previously dominant "the ", which is generally used in the King James Version. It is also used in Christian hymns such as the 1771 hymn, "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah". The most widespread theory is that the Hebrew term has the vowel points of ("adonai"). Using the vowels of "adonai", the composite "hataf patah" under