The world doesn't really understand God's love and equates it with a touchy, felling sensation that is based on circumstances and is always changing. God's love never changes, always remains the same despite circumstances it is eternal and unchanging.

Many religions believe in some form of life after death but many people today believe that once you die that is it, there is nothing more, you cease to exist, no afterlife, no judgment, no rewards. The Sadducees were our modern day atheists when it came to anything to do with supernatural, or miracles or life after death, they denied them and took the opportunity to debate Jesus about the subject.

The people in Jerusalem believed they were safe and believed the message of their leaders rather than those of Ezekiel and Jeremiah. They were told the doom and gloom of the prophets didn't apply to them and to continue on as they were doing nothing was going to happen. A Bit like our world's reaction that a day of reckoning is coming.