How to use Queue::late in laravel 4.2?

Question

I have a database with points, and want to subtract the points I just added after a year. I figured I would use a queue job and subtract my points later. I followed this official laravel link: https://laravel.com/docs/4.2/queues#queueing-closures

Here is a snippet:

DB::table('users')->where('id', $user_id)->increment('points_single', $points);
                        
//create the date when the points should be subtracted
$date = Carbon::now()->addMinutes(120);
                        
                        
//push the job onto the queue
Queue::later($date, function($job) use ($user_id, $points)
{
   DB::table('users')->where('id', $user_id)->decrement('points_single', $points);
                         
   $job->delete();
});
                                        

The problem is the job runs instantly, even though I specified a new date time. Why is that?