I don’t know if this helps, but my own personal approach to this issue was developed after I began to realize that there are multiple fulfillments to just about every prophecy in Scripture. For example, there are a number of OT prophecies of Jesus which were somewhat fulfilled in his earthly ministry (his kingdom in a limited sense) but will be completely fulfilled in a future coming (his kingdom in a fuller sense).

The same is true of the views of death in the Hebrew Scriptures versus the NT. There is a more developed understanding of death and the places the dead go in the NT than in the OT. The Hebrews understood the place of the dead (sheol) in a more limited way than Jesus understood it. (I understand Jesus’ rabbinical context, but bear with me on this) I have taken to looking at prophecy like a video projector and multiple screens. There are progressively greater fulfillments. Prophecies are often given that do not make a whole lot of sense to those giving them [Take Peter’s statements in 1 Peter 1:10-12]. Later, after partial fullfillment, the writers of the Gospels could make sense of some of the prophecies of Jesus but they were still incomplete. (In fact, if you read the context of some of the prophecies they claim for Christ, it seems like they are ripped out of context.)

A perfect example is Daniel’s prophecy of the Abomination of Desolation. While the acts of Antiochus, and later Titus, partially fulfilled the prophecy, it is clear in the Revelation that there is a greater act of desecration to be performed. Jesus seems to have had Titus’ leveling of the Temple in near focus when he spoke, and yet his words transcend that act and pass into the eschatological future. So, prophecy tends to have various levels of focus, all of which are valid. I know that this seems to sound cyclical, because history is cyclical and the future will be as well. Motifs recur because of this, and we can interpret motifs more clearly if we understand that preterism and futurism are not necessarily either/or but AND situations.

As another statement, did Jesus have the present corruption of the church, the medieval corruption of the church or the future corruption of the faith in view in Matthew 24? I think the answer is “Yes.” Are the seven churches of the Revelation a history/future of the church or a spiritual examination of the tendencies in the church? Again, the answer is “Yes.” Rather than saying we must choose, I think we need to view things holistically, understanding that Jesus knew what he was talking about when he describes this stuff as labor pains (“beginning of sorrows” in Matthew 24:8). There is a cyclical nature to things, and they get progressively worse and progressively bigger just like a woman’s contractions in labor. Eventually, there will be an end - but the ride seems unendurable, doesn’t it?