The Incomparable Widow's Mites
Copyrighted 2000 by Larry Hild
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It has been calculated that if the  widow's mites, the account of which is found in 
Mark 12:42-44, had been deposited at the "First National Bank, Jerusalem" to draw
only 4% interest semiannually, the fund today would total
$4,800,000,000,000,000,000,000 !
 
Just in case you wondered, this figure is pronounced as four sextillion, eight
hundred quintillion.  Just how large is this figure anyway?  If one were to count from
zero to one quintillion, one count per second, day and night, it would take him 32 billion 
years!  To count to one sextillion . . . 32 trillion years!  
 
If a bank on earth could multiply the widow's mites to such an astronomical figure, 
think what treasures this dedicated woman will have in Heaven where 
"moth and rust doth not corrupt."
 
Written by:
 
Larry Hild
http://www.larryhild.com