In seven previous blogs (2, 5, 7, 9, 14, 17, and 18), I mentioned a sequence of numbers 1-4-7 or 147, promising a denouement or pulling together the strands of occurrences to formulate a reasonable conclusion. I welcome your insights into discovering the understanding. Here is what I know thus far.

The 1-4-7 sequence appears first in the creation days one, four, and seven marking time, signaling linear movement in a circular fashion toward an end (Blog 2).

Genesis 1:3’s “and there was light” has a letter sum of 238, 2 × 7 × 17, the 1^st, 4^th, and 7^th prime numbers.

The plagues that brought about Israel’s Exodus, the 1^st, 4^th, and 7^th plagues, all bear a morning time signature.

In Blog 5, we saw that the Genesis creation week had a letter sum of 110,601 = 3² × 12289, or 3²(108² + 25²), and 12289 is the 1470^th prime (1-4-7 × 10). Here the 1-4-7 is associated with ten (yod), the Hebrew letter for “hand, work,” and 3² or 9, the number for “justice.” We saw YHWH’s justifying hand at work in Blog 10’s ten generations.

I know only one other place where the time measurement 1470 appears (Blog 17). There are 1470 years from Israel entering Canaan, 1446 BC, to the year Yeshua began His public ministry, AD 26. It seems the creation week’s 1470 prime is mapped onto Israel’s failures in the land (not keeping the land Sabbaths and Sabbaths, idolatry) and the redeeming work of Yeshua Mashiach. Just as the Creator looked upon a “tohu and bohu” earth and divided and filled the spaces with swarming life in Genesis 1, the promised “Seed of the woman” sees today’s “tohu and bohu” earth (Jer. 4:22-23) and will separate the sheep from goats in mercy and justice, and fill heaven and earth with life in abundance of time.

The purifying aspect of new birth through judgment on Genesis 1’s third day continues as a theme in the flood and Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction. “On the third day,” God raised the earth from the gathered waters (mikveh, 147, 3·7², Gen. 1:10) to bring forth seed. The Noachian flood began on the 17^th day of the second month (Gen. 7:11), and on the 17^th of the seventh month, the seed-carrying ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat (Gen. 8:4).  The total days to a new birth were 147 (12 days of Iyar + 30 of Sivan + 29 days of Tammuz + 30 days of Av + 29 days of Elul + 17 days of Tishri). Passing through water signifies a rebirth, embracing the profound change of a new life replete with the fruits of the Spirit. Mikveh’s letter sum 147 is stamped on Jacob’s years, 147, from which came the Seed, and the birth of sons of the Light (2870, 7·410), children of the day (844, 2² × 211, the 1^st and 47^th P, 2² or 4 is the door, dalet, the place of “the judgment” and “to sanctify” resulting in Psalm 91:14’s, “he has known My names” through 211, “these are My Feasts”). Israel, letter sum 541, is the 100th prime and 47th Pythagorean prime, 100 + 47 = 147 Jacob’s age. At some point in time, Abraham’s seed, Israel and the nations, will go through a rebirth, a renewal, becoming “a new lump of unleavened bread” in Christ Jesus (1Co. 5:7-8). (Yeshua is both “The Unleavened Bread” and “Israel,” which bear the same numeric signature, 541.)

Blog 18 discussed another time measurement from counting the days from the second month to the seventh month. The days from Iyar 1 to Tishri 1 are always 147 (29 + 30 + 29 + 30 + 29 = 147). The Feast of Dedication, an eight-day winter festival (25^th of Kislev, the 9^th month), celebrating the cleansing and purification of the brazen altar and the temple after Antiochus Epiphanes had polluted it for three years, has a letter sum of 147 (3 × 49, Feast of Renewing). To summarize, mikveh, Jacob’s age, Feast of Renewing, and the day count from Iyar 1 to Tishri 1 all have a sum of 147. It paints a picture of Israel renewed, reborn, and justified as the seventh month begins with the God of the Exodus’s return.

In John 1:47, Yeshua greets Nathanael, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!” He references Psalm 32:1-2, “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom YHWH does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.” This is the goal of YHWH’s hand in action, the 1-4-7, spoken of by the prophet Zephaniah, “I will leave in your midst a meek and humble people, and they shall trust in the name of YHWH. The remnant of Israel shall do no unrighteousness and speak no lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth” (Zeph. 3:12-13).

Jeremiah named YHWH “the hope” of their fathers, of Israel, three times. The word “hope” is the same Strong’s number as Genesis 1:10’s mikveh, מִקְוֵא 147. The hope of Israel is realized in Yeshua, “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world,” baptizing with the Spirit, washing us with the water of His Word, turning water into blood (wine), that His life force may abide in us (John 1: 29, 33, 2:6-10).

There are more subtle ways the 147 number pops up. In John’s 2^nd and 7^th signs, Jesus’s “Your son lives” (Jhn. 4:50, 51, 53, three phrase sum 4447) and “Your brother will rise again” (Jhn. 11:23, sum 2626) totals 7073, 8³ + 3⁸, 7 + 7 + 3 = 17, 7 × 7 × 3 = 147. “And You have become my salvation” (Psa. 118:21b, from Exo.15:2) fingerprints its 12 letters with a sum of 3·7·7·3·2, the numeric configuration for Passover in Greek, ΠΑΣΧΑ, 3·7·7·3·2 or 6·147. “And you know where I am going and how to get there” (7 words, etter sum 3685, 5·737, 7 × 3 × 7 = 147; Jhn. 14:1–4). Their relationship with Yeshua allowed the Father to work in them just as the Father had worked in Him. I AM’s (sum 21) light and power now shine within His new creation (7) in saving judgment and blessing (21·7 = 147).

Takeaway: 
The number sequence 1-4-7 and 147 relate to the Creator God’s hand at work, bringing Israel and all humanity’s generations through an Exodus out of the tohu and bohu of not knowing Him, to the light, cleansed, justified, and unleavened, reborn as His children through the redeeming work of Yeshua. It represents the Bible’s entire storyline of bringing humanity back into the garden to know Him.

Fun Factors:
147 is 3 × 7 × 7, or 3 × 49, or 3 × 7², or 7 × 21, which points to YHWH’s signature on us walking with Him.
The sum of 147’s prime factors is 3 + 7 + 7 = 17
The sum of 147’s digits is 1 + 4 + 7 = 12
The product of 147’s digits is 1 × 4 × 7 = 28
Adding 147 to its reverse, 741 equals 888, the equivalent of Jesus Christ in Greek, the same as “I AM who I AM” = 543; 543 + 345 = 888.
The sum of its six divisors (1, 3, 7, 21, 49, 147) is 228, factored as 2² × 3 × 19 or 12 × 19.
853 = 147^th P, 71^st PP; 853 = 23² + 18²; 853 is the signet or seal of the garden intimacy (Sng. 8:6).
1997 = 302 P, 147^th PP; 1997 = 34² + 29²; 1 × 9 × 9 × 7 = 567 (the years between Cyrus conquering Babylon and issuing a decree to rebuild the temple in 539 BC and Yeshua’s death, His three weekdays 5-6-7 in the grave, and resurrection in AD 30, Jhn. 2:19); 1 + 9 + 9 + 7 = 26, YHWH.