WOW!

This is AMAZING.

What you see in the picture is the Bang Melea temple in the northeastern end of Siem Reap Cambodia. The temple was built in the Kingdom of Cambodia in the late 11th - first half of the 12th century. It's religious ancestry: the Brahamanic cult within Hinduism, main deity: Vishnu. Archaeologists assume that based on the 45 m wide moat that the temple was originally the center of a town or village. The temple is not often visited by tourists but it is quite large in size the outer enclosure of the temple is 181 m by 142m. 

Initially upon seeing the temple at a distance I assumed that it had been destroyed by invasion or by war. However as I got closer to the ruins themselves, I realised that this was not the case. Seyha, my local guide while in Siem Reap, told me that the temple didn't exist and stand for very long after it had been built. It may have only lasted for a century and then its worshippers had to vacate as the structure was seen to be unsafe. The walls, floors and columns started to crack and collapse. The temple began to fall apart because below the ground the roots of new trees started to grow beneath the temple's foundation. The roots of these trees wrapped themselves around the underground pillars and stones that kept the temple standing and began to shift its supports out of place. Bang Melea Temple, a temple erected to the deity Vishnu, was literally uprooted and destroyed by God's creation.

This taught me a valuable lesson.

God doesn't have to do much in order to destroy an idol. He doesn't have to send fire from heaven, he doesn't need to rain down brimstone, he doesn't need to send an army of soldiers to invade and destroy, it would seem that God's natural design, creation itself has an organic way of uprooting things that attempt to take away God's glory. The same goes for idols that we have in our own personal lives, God doesn't need to do much to destroy them, or bring them to ruin. idolatrous people, possessions, and positions all have a way of self destructing.