The moment you or I - or even the guy with a Doctorate in theology and Ancient Hebrew language and Jewish symbols - open our mouth and utter ANYTHING other than direct quotes from Scripture, we are speaking with 'human reasoning'. There's wise, informed, godly biblical human reasoning and bad reasoning. No one here can claim to be Spirit-breathed - that's for Apostles only.
Your claim to just read what is there is pretty much what all the other futurists here claim - they're not doing advanced theology but just reading the words that are there. So why do we have so many other interpretations from other people that also claim to just 'read what is there'? Because it's not peer-reviewed theology - just amateur theology - that comes to so many thousands of different individualistic and eccentric views.
But just reading what is there does not tell modern 21st Century people what all these symbols actually MEAN - what do DO about this book. For that you need certain theological tools - like reading ancient Hebrew and Greek and knowledge of the whole bible, and even ancient cultures and audiences. That's why I go to experts that have demonstrated reliability across broad commentary in various books of the bible. What have you done to demonstrate your expertise in this? For make no mistake - any time you open your mouth - you are offering your own interpretation from your own presuppositions, church experience, culture, and 'human reasoning.' I have found that people that condemn 'theology' just want an excuse to condemn other vastly more qualified experts than themselves - and then offer their own theology. And sadly it's all an excuse to justify inexpert, poor theology at that.
Why do we have so many different theories? It is simple: very few if any follow the scriptural prescription: read a scripture, meditate the scripture day and night, pray in the Spirit and wait on God for wisdom on that scripture. He is the Author and He knows what He was thinking when He caused people to write.
I read Revelation over a hundred times - for three years - determined not to try to understand any of it. I just waited on God to teach if He chose to. Then one day...
One day, I was just minding my own business, reading in Daniel about the abomination happening in the "midst" of the week. The moment my eyes and mind got to the word "Midst," the Holy Spirit spoke to me saying,
"you could find the exact midpoint 'clearly marked' in the book of Revelation." I don't mean I was having a dream. I was wide awake. I don't mean I ate too much pizza: I had none. I heard words. It was the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to me. My spirit man answered Him:
"How would I find that?"
The Holy Spirit answered:
"Whenever I mentioned an event that will start at the midpoint, and go to the end of the week, I always mentioned the 3 1/2 years. When you find these mentions of the 3 1/2 years, you will be very close to the exact midpoint."
At this time, I already knew there were five different mentions of the 3 1/2 years: two as 1260 days, two as 42 months, and one as time, times and half of time. So I understood immediately what He was saying. Then, almost as an afterthought, He added, "In fact, you could find the entire 70th week, 'clearly marked.'" When He said this, I knew in my Spirit that all three points would use the same marker, so when I found what was marking the midpoint, I would easily find the beginning and end of the 70th week.
Jesus had said for those in Judea to flee the moment they see the abomination. We see that fleeing begin in 12:6. Therefore, the abomination and division point must be only seconds before 12:6. I backed up verse by verse looking for a marker. I found the 7th trumpet and knew in my spirit I had found what He sent me to find. I rushed to the 7th vial and read "it is done." Then I was convinced. But I then rushed to the 6th seal and read of the 30 minutes of silence and thought: what a perfect way to start the 70th week.
Since I knew then that the first seals were not in the 70th week, I began meditating on chapters 4 & 5. God did not disappoint me. He spoke several times teaching me there, showing me clearly that the seals are not in the 70th week: it does not begin until the 7th seal is opened, which allows the book to be opened, which probably contains the entire 70th week.
The 70th week is marked by 7's: the 7th seal, the 7th trumpet and the 7th vial.
The first seals were opened as soon as Jesus ascended and sent the Holy Spirit down.
Seal 1 is to represent the church sent out with the gospel.
Seals 2-4 are to represent the devil trying to stop the advance of the gospel. God limited them to only 1/4 of the earth - without a doubt the 1/4 centered on Jerusalem where the gospel began.
Seal 5 are the martyrs of the church age. The rapture will not come until the final martyr.
Seal 6 starts the Day of the Lord and God's wrath.
The rapture then will be between the 5th and 6th seals. God is waiting on the last church age martyr.