Mark and Israel Eschatology and the Little Apocalypse The conclusion here offered in respect of Mark’s treatment of the Son of Man was also suggested in our study of the Parables and the Kingdom of God, namely, that the Gospel of Mark in its eschatology represents an early stage in the transformation of the apocalyptic hope of Israel, of Jesus and of primitive Jewish Christianity. Jesus ‘the Proclaimed’ of the coming eschatological Kingdom of God (to Israel and to fellow Jews) is in process of being