“I expect the Lord to return in 21st century”!! No kiddin’..

 On the threshold of Armageddon? ”Jerry Falwell wrote: “It is apparent, in light of the rebirth of the state of Israel, that the present-day events in the Holy Land may very well serve as a prelude or forerunner to the future Battle of Armageddon and the glorious return of Jesus Christ.”

Falwell’s August 27 sermon at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Vi

FALWELL: I expect the Lord to return in the 21st century to Rapture at his church. Now, I can’t prove that. I cannot prove that the Lord is gonna come in this century. No one knows the day or the hour, but in my heart I believe it because there are no more predicted events that need to happen before our Lord can return.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200608280008 

Falwell has built a shtick out of making ridiculously offensive statements about his detractors. A shining example of this was the statement he made two days after the 9/11 , while the wreckage at world trade center was still smoking:

“The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gay and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU , People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say: you helped this happen.”

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/jerry-falwell/