>I personally believe they are actually trying to make God angry so he smites the earth.
They know God knows everything. A fool's errand on their part if true.
[Jas 2:19 KJV] 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
[Mat 24:36 KJV] 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
[Mat 8:28-29 KJV] 28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?