And all nations were deceived by your sorcery

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
~ Revelation 18:4-5

The first reason is that Babylon’s traders were great and important men. It is not wrong, of course, to be powerful. However, it is very wrong to use that power in a wicked manner. By their wealth and power, Babylon’s leaders tempted rulers across the world not to serve God (18:9). Their nations then behaved in the same evil and selfish manner as Babylon’s people did (18:3).

The second reason seems even more serious. Babylon used witchcraft (magic) to control those other nations. The Bible teaches that all kinds of witchcraft are very wrong (Deuteronomy 18:9-13). It was bad enough that Babylon’s people were teaching the world to act in a wrong and selfish manner. Now they were trying to gain even more power, by means of the spirit world (Isaiah 47:9-13).
and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
~ Revelation 18:23

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