Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”
Luke 10:23
“Iconography is the ancient practice of encoding information in symbols, so that it can be deciphered by future generations despite language barriers.
This is what the Chaldeans - the men who taught Daniel -were doing. The problem is that only the elite were given this information. Only those connected to the aristocracy were taught to read it. Which is how Daniel ended up learning it. The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar sent Daniel to be trained by astrotheurgists.
The problem was they were misusing it, wielding it as a way to control the masses.Only kings - and those connected to them - were taught these things.
Jesus taught so that all may know. If you knew these things, you became “royalty.” You possessed the knowledge of kings. This is why they kept asking him if he was a king. They didn’t murder him for being a good, loving person who fed the poor.
Most of this is still unknown to the masses. It’s been mostly forgotten by the world….which is why the four creatures of Revelation are weeping, and saying no one can be found who can read the scrolls.”