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 are used instead, generally indicating that the corresponding Hebrew is Yahweh or YHWH. Most scholars believe "Jehovah" (also transliterated as "Yehowah") to be a hybrid form derived by combining the Latin letters "JHVH" with the vowels of "Adonai". Some hold that there is evidence that a form of the Tetragrammaton similar to "Jehovah" may have been in use in Semitic and Greek phonetic texts and artifacts from Late Antiquity. Others say that it is the pronunciation "Yahweh" that is testified in both Christian and pagan texts of the early Christian era. Karaite Jews, as proponents of the rendering "Jehovah", state