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Context means everything.

Destruction of temple and Jerusalem.
“These things which YOU see—the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.” Verse 6

"Take heed that YE be not deceived..." "go YE not with them"
"But when YE shall hear..."

"they shall lay hands on YOU and persecute YOU, delivering up YOU..."

"And when YE shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then knoW the desolation is nigh..."

Matthew 24. You need to understand Matthew 23. Jesus pronounced a series of wows on the scribes and pharisees.
Jesus says the vengeance of God is coming upon them (their fathers) for shedding the blood of the prophets plus the blood of the righteous.

Matthew 23

34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

35 That upon YOU may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom YE slew between the temple and the altar.

36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon THIS GENERATION.

Revelation is surely difficult. Look up the verses that describe God's vengeance against those that killed the prophets. The Roman armies did exactly that when they destroyed Jerusalem in 70AD

Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a PROPHET perish out of JERUSALEM. Luke 13:33

.15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Matthew 24

16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

The disciples were warned to flee when they saw the Roman armies. It would be harder for a woman to flee with a child. Winter would make travel more difficult and on the sabbath the gates to the city would be closed.

V For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

The above describes Jesus COMING in judgment. It doesn't say he was coming to earth. "APPEAR the SIGN of the SON of man in HEAVEN COMING...

Verse 31 Is in reference to gathering the elect by preaching the gospel without the hinderance of Judaism. Since they were responsible for killing the very ones that God sent.

34 Verily I say unto you, THIS GENERATION shall not pass, till ALL THESE THINGS BE FULFILLED.

My dad grew up in Arkansas. He hitch hiked to California when he was 16. He joined the army in WW2. They put him in the glider troops. He requested to be a paratrooper since the pay was 50 dollars more a month. He went to pour kerosene on a fire and poured it on his legs when he was 12. Had third degree burns. The doctor told him he could walk out of the army right now.

He ended up in the 11th Airborne. I want list all the places he trained but he did go to Camp Mackall NC by train and back to San Francisco. From there to New Guinea.

The 11th Airborne invaded Leyte island. After fighting across the island the rested and then they landed on Luzon.

My dad was hit in the forehead by a sniper. He was blinded and started crawling toward his buddies. He was shot in the back of his thigh and another bullet grazed his back and hit him in the back of his head. He remembered guys walking by and saying he was dead. He would respond that no I'm not.

They strapped him to a wing of an airplane and flew him to a field hospital. When they stripped his clothes off he went into shock and passed out. He came to when the doctor was working on the back of his head.

He was blind for a period of time and started getting part of his vision back. He had tunnel vision.

He was on a hospital ship back to San Francisco and then moved to San Antonio. From there he was to be discharged back to Arkansas.

While at the hospital in SA he received his back pay. He bought a billfold and one morning he woke up and someone had stolen his money.

He was out in the hall one day and saw his cousin who had been in Europe fighting the Germans. He had lost a leg. My dad borrowed money from him to get back to Arkansas.

Sorry so long. But, I'm leaving a lot out. I could almost write a book on his lofe when he was young, training, fighting and his life history afterwards.

Long time lurker. I admire her for her strength and courage.

Jesus did say "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
Jesus did have a forgiving attitude. The Father didn't forgive them at that moment.

Jesus had the power to forgive sins while on earth. Peter' preached to the very individuals that had crucified Christ on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2.

"Ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain." Verse 23

He accuses them again of crucifying Christ in verse 36

When they heard this they were pricked in their heart. Verse 37
PRICKED is a strong word signifying their guilt. "to pain the mind sharply, agitate it vehemently.."

Their response was after being convicted by Peter's sermon was "what must we do?" They were still guilty of the blood of the Lord.

"Then Peter said unto them, REPENT and be baptized every one of you in the.name of Jesus Christ for the REMISSION OF SINS...." Verse 38

Obviously, they were still guilty of murder and stood condemned. Peter didn't say that I forgive you and God had forgiven them.

Take heed to yourselves: If a brother trespass (sin) against thee, REBUKE him; and IF HE REPENT forgive him. Luke 17:3

If a brother needs to repent for forgiveness, I cannot forgive an unrepentant murderer. You don't just forgive a brother. You have an obligation to rebuke him or point out his sin. Then if he repents forgive him.

To sum it up, God isn't going to ask you to do something he isn't willing to do. Forgiving someone that God hasn't forgiven certainly doesn't make you more righteous than God. It's misplaced forgiveness.