https://www.crossway.org/articles/6-habits-for-successful-bible-study/

In some ways the bible is coded and ambiguous. The bible even tells us that this obscurity is purposeful for several reasons, of which I will mention 1 Cor. 2.14: The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit (NIV). Even the godly Prophet Daniel needed divine help to understand the visions given while in Babylonian exile when he testified to the king: But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries (Dan. 2.28a NIV).

Here are some great investigative principles to make sense of what we are reading.