What does it mean to pray with faith to move mountains (Mark 11:24)? Jesus enters Jerusalem and goes into the temple to cleanse it fulfilling a prophecy in Malachi 3:1. He curses the fig tree that then withers as a symbol of Israel and the Temple because the power and presence of God no longer dwell in a building but in a body. And through the body of Christ, we now have access to God so that we can pray with faith.