HI John,

You asked about number 147 – I trust the following will help. The values given are English ordinal gematria in the form A=1, B=2, C=3 to Z=26

 

Joh 15:1  "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 

(The true vine Sum=147)

 

Here is another two phrases of the same value.

 

Luk 2:37  And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God

with fastings and prayers night and day. 

Luk 2:38  And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked

for redemption in Jerusalem.

This woman can be typed as the Church awaiting the birth of the man child.  She is clothed with the nature (the name

is the nature) thus the Gematria number 151 is evident in the title of “the Tribe of Aser”. Anna is old, a prophetess and

awaits the coming of the Lord. She is not married and barren. The Church is somewhat in a similar state. We are

waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God (147) The phrase the Rod of Iron (147) has the same value. The

ministry of the man child is going to be fairly strident, authoritarian like John the Baptist’s.

 

Trevor Ridge

Australia