Focus on eternal life is literally the longest time-preference possible and in this anno domini should be ever present because we don’t know the day or hour when this age will end for us personally or for all men universally.
“No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.
Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.”