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Secondly, Jerusalem isn't being spoken of in Rev.18 In order for this to be one has to 1)change the dating of Revelation 2)put the blood of all prophets, SAINTS, and ALL slain on the earth. and 3)reconcile the fact that the prophecy says the city shall be "found no more at all" with the fact that Jerusalem exists as a major city in our world. This isn't the case with Sodom or Babylon.
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You have only one extremely vague pre-Catholic source for a late date of the Book of Revelation. The translation of the term “it” in that single source could easily be also rendered “he” making what was seen was John rather than the vision. What is more important is the internal evidence within the Book itself. That should be the final source for it's dating. Let me expound on this for a moment.
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Rev 1:9) I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Notice that John states that he was in tribulation with the church. This is interesting because according to you, the tribulation has not started yet. Also notice that it is during this tribulation that he is sent to the Patmos Island, because of his preaching the Word of God and for testifying of Jesus Christ.
Then notice here:
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Rev 11:1) And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
If the dating of the Book of Revelation was later than AD70 then John wrote a book to seven churches that made no since to them because there would be no temple in Jerusalem to reference this scripture to.
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Rev 11:8) And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
This city termed “the great city” is Jerusalem where Jesus was crusified. Jerusalem is call Sodom and is called Egypt by John. This becomes important when we get to chapter 17 and 18.
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Rev 17:5) And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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Rev 17:18) And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Within the Book of Revelation, there are two cities referenced. Jerusalem and New Jerusalem. This is the theme throughout the New Testament. Which can be seen here:
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Heb 12:18) For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
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Heb 12:19) And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
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Heb 12:20) (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
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Heb 12:21) And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake
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Heb 12:22) But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
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Heb 12:23) To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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Heb 12:24) And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
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Heb 12:25) See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
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Heb 12:26) Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
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Heb 12:27) And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
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Heb 12:28) Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
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Heb 12:29) For our God is a consuming fire.
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Gal 4:21) Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
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Gal 4:22) For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
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Gal 4:23) But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
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Gal 4:24) Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
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Gal 4:25) For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
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Gal 4:26) But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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Gal 4:27) For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
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Gal 4:28) Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
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Gal 4:29) But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
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Gal 4:30) Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
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Gal 4:31) So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Next to this is the fact that John gives us an indication of the date he saw the vision.
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Rev 17:10) And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
Five Kings who were fallen: 1) Julius Caesar, 2) Caesar Augustus, 3) Tiberius Caesar, 4) Gaius Caligula Caesar, 5) Claudius Caesar.
One is: Nero Caesar- Nero banished John to the Isle of Patmos.
One is to come, but will only continue a short space, and will be of the seven: Galba Caesar who was not of the line of Julius, so was not a direct decendant of him.
The dating the Book of Revelation should really be viewed by the internal evidence. This is not all of the evidence in the Book.
Second, I don't have to put the blood of all slain on the earth on Jerusalem. Jesus did a fine job of doing that right here:
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Mat 23:29) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
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Mat 23:30) And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
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Mat 23:31) Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
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Mat 23:32) Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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Mat 23:33) Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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Mat 23:34) Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
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Mat 23:35) That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
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Mat 23:36) Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
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Mat 23:37) O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
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Mat 23:38) Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
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Mat 23:39) For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
The Jerusalem of today is by no means the Jerusalem of the pre-AD70 period. For you to say that it is is not only bad science but irresponsible. Also, Babylon is here today as modern Iraq and all the countries which Babylon controlled. Jerusalem is the same. The geographical location is not what is being spoken about here.