Acacia Wood
Acacia or Shittim Wood (Incorruptible humanity)
The Shittah tree grew in the deserts of Sinai, and the deserts around the
Dead Sea. The wood is hard, very heavy, indestructible by insects, and has a fine,
beautiful grain, brownish-orange in color. It was remarkably luxuriant in dry
places, sometimes attaining a height of twenty feet. It had lovely yellow
flowers and its insect-resisting Acacia wood was used in making mummy cases. This
Acacia wood undoubtedly speaks of the incorruptible humanity of Christ, for we
are told that His humanity would never see corruption.
Ps 16:10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy
One to see corruption.