Mark wrote by THE SPIRIT, in chapter 11:
12 Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry.
13 And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
14 In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.” And His disciples heard it.
And:
20 Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21 And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
There has been much teaching on the prophetic aspect of the fig tree representing Israel. However, let’s consider other facets of this encounter. Could this tree represent men who are unfruitful? In Mark 8:24, men are referred to as trees. Jesus expected fruit since the tree had leaves but found no fruitfulness at all. The Law of the fruit trees demanded that unfruitful trees be removed so they no longer took up resources meant for fruitfulness.
Another aspect of this passage is that there is a “life” associated with unfruitfulness. Sickness and disease has a life of its own and the adversary can oppress people with this unfruitful life. It is written by THE SPIRIT in Acts chapter 10:
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
Jesus rebuked and removed the life of sickness and disease in a similar fashion to removing the life of the fig tree by its roots. When the source of the problem was addressed, the sickness withered away for the source of its life was removed. The result… healing occurred.
Another aspect of the fig tree is found in Genesis chapter 3 after Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil:
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Immediately after eating the fruit, fig leaves were used to make coverings. The fruit brought the curse and later Jesus approached the fig tree which had no life-giving fruit thus He cursed the tree that potentially brought the initial curse to mankind which includes sickness and disease.
There is life from FATHER which brings for health and healing from the moment we are formed in the womb. There is also a different life from the adversary which oppresses and brings forth sickness, disease, destruction, and death. We have the authority as Sons and Daughters to rebuke and remove that life from our midst.