Which makes most of the speculation going around today pretty much meaningless.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass)
You are right about it being here or later. We could all be gone from this world when he returns.
No it doesn't. Speculating there is no God is meaningless for your argument because you have no proof to offer me or anyone else here. Me telling you that the End Times will happen either tomorrow, next week, or a thousand years from now, is not speculation because one just has to look in the Bible for proof. We don't know when it's going to occur, but it will occur.