Help me out here...Is Hanegraaff's position basically preterism? I suppose I've always been a pre-mil dispensationalist, but I would be interested to see an objective comparison of the various eschatological positions.
Nero was a archtype pattern. There were things about his reign and nature that were similar to certain prophecies about anti-christ so naturally the arguement is that John the Revelator had a few dreams and patterned all sorts of prophetic rwritings based on the Roman system...thus all prophecies occured or at least events of the time were twisted by some to reflect that view, according to some modernists.
But Daniel said that the final week of years was to be delayed for a long period after "the prince was cut off but not for himself" and that the meaning of the Book of Daniel was going to be sealed until the "latter days when knowledge shall increase and the people shall run to and fro over the earth."
The view that all the major prophecies have happened is a preterist view, the view that much is yet to happen is mostly a pre millenial view.
Some points to counter...there has never been a thousand years of peace under the reign of Jesus Christ nor has there been a binding of Satan to be let loose again at the end of a 1000 years to tempt men to rebelling against God again! Israel became a literal country again even after many years and despite the scoffing of so called religious and temporal scholars. In history, there hasn't been a dumping of fire and Brimstone on a major Northern Eurasian army as is predicted in the Old Testament.There are many things to look at that tell you that the preterists don't have a leg to stand on!