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"Four Riders of the Apocalypse," a woodcut by Albrecht Durer

Jobs have vanished and more of us are in desperate financial straits than ever. Maybe that’s why 122112 is becoming the new Doomsday for more and more of the superstitious.

December 21, 2012 has become the new Y2K. Remember when the birth of the year 2000 was supposed to cause the world’s machinery to stop and chaos to ensue? I was on call on New Year’s Eve 1999 in case the hospital where I was employed ceased to have functioning equipment. After the all clear announcement, I went to bed.

Lore says that the Mayan calendar is due to end on 12/21/2012 and that solar storms and all sorts of mayhem are on tap that day. A countdown clock on www.december212012.com says we have about 1,378 days left. The site has a list of celebrities who are supposed to be true believers and they’re a motley crew: Mel Gibson, Montel Williams and Joe Rogan are among the names listed.

Matthew 24 has something to say about the end of creation: “But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” We read that we must be prepared because we will not know the hour. The Four Horsemen in Revelation will be dispatched by God, not by economic necessity.

If the angels and the Son do not know the hour, why are some quick to assume that the Mayans or Edgar Cayce knew? Or Joe Rogan, for that matter?

For all we know, the world could end tomorrow. No web site has a countdown of God’s time, after all. We may not know the hour, but we’ve been warned to be ready.