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While the demise of the pencil has been predicted whenever any new communications device has become popular, it seems to have an incredible staying power. The eraser-tipped pencil invented by Hyman Lipman of Philadelphia received a patent in 1858. In the United States about two billion pencils are used every year, requiring 82,000 trees. On the floor of the New York Stock Exchange alone, more than one million pencils are used every twelve months.

World-wide, the number comes to 14 billion annually, enough to circle Earth 60 times. The average pencil can draw a line 35 miles long.

If we cannot accurately predict the demise of the pencil, how much less will we be able to predict when Jesus will return!

–Rocky Henriques, http://www.timothyreport.com