Can you point to any early church father who held to the position that Nero was the Anti-Christ or that the book of Revelation was written before AD90?
I don’t buy that either. I think there is good internal and external evidence to date the book at about 90 ad or so. I also think it is a mistake to look for either Domitian or Nero as “the antichrist.” I do believe there will be a “man of sin” in the end days who will deceive and persecute, and that lots of little antichrists (as per: I John) have and will arise. The reformens saw the Pope as the figure told of re: the antichrist, and I think they were right. However, he was not THE antichrist. There will be lots of bush leaguers before the main kahuna shows up.