To believe that Nero was the Antichrist requires the discarding of Revelation 19:20, which explicitly states that the Antichrist and False Prophet will be thrown alive into the Lake of Fire. Now you are free to believe what you want, but understand that what you believe has no basis in Scripture and no matter how much you attempt to re-define the Bible, there is no way to twist it to fit your belief that end-time prophecy was fulfilled in 70AD.
And, btw, the False Prophet is described in Revelation 3:11-18 as having two horns like a lamb, identifying him with Christianity, not Judaism.
Preterism was discredited long ago and it simply cannot be supported by Scripture.
Roger that. I'm not a dispensationalist by any means but I find preterism even less convincing. In addition to the excellent points you made I would not that no one in Rome was ever required to have Nero Ceasar's mark placed on his hand or forehead as the Bible tells us will be required with the mark of the Beast. So how can the mark be referring to Nero Ceasar? Further, to accept preterism you have to accept that all of Revelation has already happend. So when did Christ reappear, as is described in Revealtion? I've missed out on the historical account of that. Finally, many of the former hard core preterists, like Kenneth Gentry, have now backed off preterism and call themselves "semi-preterists". Semi-Preterism is just a front loaded version of the historicist doctrine.