We see Christ in those pictures now that the cross has occurred. At the times of the pictures, no one saw Christ and the cross.
Are you also a Mid - Acts Dispensationalist?
I really do not know how you can state not one saw Christ and the cross.
If the woman from Samaria recognized Him based on what she knew, certainly people in the OT also saw Christ and the cross.
As well, Paul states in Galatians 3:8, “the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith,
preached the gospel to Abraham.