Revelation 13:11-18 — Pastor Patrick Dailey preaches "The Counterfeit Lamb" from Revelation 13:11-18, Week 23 of Thy Will Be Done, our 42-week series through Revelation, continuing Part Three: The Great Conflict. Last Sunday a beast rose out of the sea, the foreign and the chaotic. Now a second beast rises out of the earth, close to home, quieter, and it looks religious, with two horns like a lamb and a voice like a dragon. These are the most misused verses in the most misused book of the Bible, the mark of the beast and the number 666, and we are taking them back. The key is this: the dragon does not invent, he imitates. In chapter 11 God gave two witnesses who spoke for Him; here the dragon raises two beasts who speak for him, a counter-Christ and a counter-prophet, the two counter-witnesses. They perform great signs, even fire from heaven, the way Elijah once did, and they make an image and demand worship. But signs do not settle anything, because the deceiver can do signs too. The real test is who is being glorified. Christ gave all His glory to the Father; the beast says worship me, make an image of me. The mark of the beast is the counterfeit of the seal of God: where God seals His people with His name on the hand and the forehead, what they do and what they think, the beast stamps the name of a man. And 666 is false and incomplete worship, the number of a man, falling one short of God's seven, three times over, a counterfeit that never quite adds up. So we do not chase the signs; we ask who is glorified. We reject the mark and receive the seal. We worship the Creator, not the created, perfection not imperfection, light not darkness, truth not deception. And because it is Father's Day, here is the charge: train the next generation to tell the real from the counterfeit, and grow up curious about the real God. There is no deception in Christ. He is the true Lamb, and the true Light. ------ Sermon Slides PDF: https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/sermons/the-counterfeit-lamb-revelation-131118-esv/slides.pdf Congregational Notes PDF: https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/sermons/the-counterfeit-lamb-revelation-131118-esv/congregational-notes.pdf Check out our website for more information about our church at: https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/ To donate to our ministry, please go to the link here: https://tithe.ly/give_new/www/#/tithely/give-one-time/7411159 To check out our sermon archive, please go to this link: https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/sermons/ To check out all of our social media, please go to our link: https://lnk.bio/ontariocommunitychurch Download our Ontario Community Church mobile apps: For Android devices (Google Play Store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ontariocommunitychurch.app&pcampaignid=web_share For Apple devices (App Store): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ontario-community-church/id6475359102 (Series: Thy Will Be Done: Final Parables of the Kingdom - Revelation) ——— Download today's resources: • Sermon Slides PDF: https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/sermons/the-counterfeit-lamb-revelation-131118-esv/slides.pdf • Congregational Notes PDF: https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/sermons/the-counterfeit-lamb-revelation-131118-esv/congregational-notes.pdf • Transcript (PDF): https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/sermons/the-counterfeit-lamb-revelation-131118-esv/transcript.pdf • Transcript (text): https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/sermons/the-counterfeit-lamb-revelation-131118-esv/transcript.txt Visit our website: https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/ Give: https://tithe.ly/give-one-time/7411159 Sermon archive: https://ontariocommunitychurch.org/sermons/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ontario-community-church-sermons/id1691572326 Download the Ontario Community Church mobile app: Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ontariocommunitychurch.app Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ontario-community-church/id6475389102