Excellent article for your files.
Just to add to Warner's article:
Many of the Church Fathers since John have written of the mystery of the identity of the Anti-Christ.
If John had just known it, why hadn't he revealed it to them? Why all these puzzled early fathers still wondering who it WILL be? (Note future tense.)
Preterism utterly fails on multiple fronts, but the dating of the Revelation is the final nail in the coffin.
Obviously since the power of Rome was now the power of the church, they couldn't have a book predicting that the evil Roman Powers would be directly overthrown by Christ himself. It just didn't sit right.
Missler has said that while the Reformation reformed its views on soteriology and theology, they failed to make the necessary reforms to the Roman views on eschatology. IOW the preterist position is a throwback to the Holy Roman Empire eschatology. Earlier eschatology (prior to the marriage of the Roman government to the Roman Church) leaned towards a futurist interpretation and most of the early church fathers (prior to Augustine) held to the 95 AD date for the book of Revelation.