John is given three reasons this great thriving city is destroyed. The Lord credits this latter-day Babylon with the same guilt as Jerusalem of old. With solemn words, He pronounced judgment on the city that would crucify Him: “that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation” (Luke 11:50). He gathered up the roll of the martyrs and hung the whole list around the neck of guilty
Revelation 18:1–8