Hosea 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

Nothing in the Old Testament is what it seems. The truth has been hidden in God, and through God all is revealed, and once revealed then one can have understanding.

1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Not of your own understanding, which in all err, but of God.

2 Peter 1:19-21 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

So Jesus expounded upon his disciples the true meanings, revealing that mystery.

Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Meaning himself as the Lord God, since that what the Old Testament is basically about, and the prophecies about the same Lord coming into the flesh as Jesus.

Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

And what they understood which most others don't is that;

Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

And since ALL people take the very image of things, a veil is upon people's minds, blinding what they see but cannot see.

2 Corinthians 3:14-16 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

And so Jesus taught them HOW to circumcise their heart, by teaching them how to seek the Father within, in spirit. It is he that slowly removes that veil so that one might understand the scriptures.

Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

In many respects God is a Zionist, but not the Earthly kind who only care for their own, who only want for a select few to live in glory so to speak, where as the Father desires all to be chosen and be raised up to his Kingdom which is VERY GOOD. The Lord God's kingdom, isn't very good, but full of corruption, created by that which WAS corrupt.

Genesis 6:11-12 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Israel for example is a shadow of Heaven but not the very image of, and of course the circumcision, is of the spirit.

Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

As Jesus said;

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

So Jesus spoke in parables about the SPIRIT, and the Old Testament is a shadow of that.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

They're many mis-translations, and corruptions of the word in the Bible. However God is no fool not to know that everything man touches he corrupts, since he knew all things before they began, and so through those prophets his true word was sealed behind Earthly events, similitude's visions, and words. Words which we cannot understand the true meaning of because we're in a state of slumber.

Isaiah 29:10-12 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

And to expound upon the above. When you've done what Jesus said to do. i.e Turn to your Father within, and seek after his righteousness (A key mistake people don't do) The Father then decides whether your intent is sincere or not, since he tries all reigns and hearts, and knows all the thoughts and intents of. And remember again, the Old Testament is all prophecy. So the following is about Jesus and the Father.

Isaiah 55:7-9 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

If he decides to anoint you, he will teach you in ways you can't even begin to imagine, since his ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts.

Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

He'll teach you, via Revelation.

1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Then you can bring out the real spiritual treasure out from the Old Testament, because of what you've APPLIED in the New. As prophesied.

Leviticus 26:10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

You'll be able to bring out all manner of pleasant fruits. The Good News.

Song of Solomon 7:13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

So, learn to rule over your own house, your mind, the spirit, that third part of man, lest the thieves and robbers spoil it. I shouldn't have to tell you who the thieves and robbers are now do I?

Matthew 13:52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.