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 (hoist; lift up) and was rendered "Jehovah Is My Exaltation". In many modern Christian translations, such as the New International Version, the name is translated “the is my banner." Nes (nês), from which Nissi derived, means "banner" in Hebrew. The chapter recounts that Israel had the advantage over Amalek as long as Moses, watching the battle from a vantage point, held his staff aloft. Matthew Henry considered that "Jehovah-nissi–The Lord is my banner" "probably refers to the lifting up of the rod of God as a banner in this action. The presence and power of Jehovah were the banner under