In this lesson, we learn from Dr. Alan B. Stringfellow that the gospel of John resembled the items found in the tabernacle. Jesus was the Lamb of God that took away the sins of the world, the altar. He was living water - the basin. He was the Bread of Life, and the Light of the World, and His prayer was the incense offered up to God. Jesus prayer in chapter 17 brought us into the Holy of Holies through the veil, and then we find that through Jesus' sprinkled blood, our sins are atoned for, and we now have access to God the Father. Jesus also fulfilled the Passover, the Feast of Booths/Tabernacle, Hanukkah, the Festival of First Fruits (1 Cor. 15:20-23), and the Festival of Trumpets, but it was not until Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came in Acts, and then ultimately when Jesus comes again to take the "wheat," believers in Christ, home that Pentecost will be fulfilled. In the "I Am" sayings of Jesus, He expresses that He is everything we need, and He is also God. "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through Me!"
