The stuff between the brackets is editorial comment, is it not?
Doesn't the bible state that you need two witnesses? ;O)
My eschatology (such as it is) is not contingent upon a late date for Revelation. The preterist position is completely destroyed if Revelation was penned after 70AD. The preponderance of the evidence suggests that it was penned much later than 70AD and as late as 96AD. It is the preterist who must grasp at straws. It is the preterist who has the burden of proof and it is the preterist who must produce at least two witnesses.
The Tyrant Previously Identified as Nero. LOL!
I would say dispensationalists who would like to toss out 1900 years of church teaching that believers are the new Israel, simply based upon one tiny statement that is suspect, are more likely to be grasping at straws.