I think the idea of Jesus gradually developing an awareness of what it would mean for him to be part of what God was doing is eminently consistent with the theology of Mark. Although he begins his narrative by announcing that Jesus is Messiah (son of God), Mark portrays Jesus as preferring the title Son of Man, which in Daniel and Ezekiel was an apocalyptic title. Schweitzer and others have used Mark's portrait to state that Jesus thought of himself as a prophet of the end times, and only gradually expanded his self-awareness as his mission evolved. 

I agree with BROTHOR that a discussion of the historical Jesus would be much more useful than the speculation we tend to spend so much time on here.