boards
The typical meaning of the boards is clear as to Christ. Acacia wood, a desert growth, is a fitting symbol of Christ in His humanity as "a root out of dry ground" (Isaiah 53:2). The covering, gold, typifies Deity in manifestation, speaks of His divine glory. As applied to the individual believer the meaning of the boards is less clear. The connection may be found in; (John 17:21); (John 17:22); (John 17:23); (Ephesians 1:4); (Ephesians 1:6); (1 John 4:13). Only as seen "in Him" could the boards be taken as representing the believer. So viewed the type is beautiful. In the world, and yet separated from it by the silver of redemption; (Galatians 1:4); (Exodus 30:11-16); (Exodus 38:25-27) as the boards of the tabernacle were separated from the earth by the sockets of silver, and united by the "middle bar" (Exodus 26:28) representing both the one life (Galatians 2:20) and one Spirit (Ephesians 4:3) "all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord." (Ephesians 2:21).