A Modern-Day David and Goliath

One of my favorite stories in the Bible is the story of David and Goliath. You know how the story goes. The Philistines had the army of Israel pinned down, demoralized and looking very defeated. Every day, a big, bad-boy from Gath, came out and taunted the children of the living God with a challenge for anyone to come out and fight him.

When David arrived at the camp with food for this brothers, he was instantly filled with righteous indignation to see how the emasculated army of Israel hid like frightened rats. David knew his God and had no doubt of His power and might. He knew that one against a thousand still equaled victory, when that one is Almighty God. The rest of the story is history.

There is a similar modern-day story of God using everyday people to defeat today’s giants. The story starts with the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro which gave birth to the Convention on Biodiversity. Because it was merely an 18 page outline, however, President Bush refused to sign it. That didn’t bother President Clinton, and he signed it in July, 1993. By July, 1994, this unwritten treaty came to the full U.S. Senate for ratification.

Few people knew of the treaty, but those who did were aware it could be very damaging. Tom McDonnell of the American Sheep Industry (ASI); Henry Lamb, Director of the Environmental Conservation Organization; Bob Voight, President of the Maine Conservation Rights Institute (MECRI); and Dr. Michael Coffman, a Director of MECRI were four of a dozen or so people who were concerned.

Having followed the evolution of this treaty for several years, the four men suspected that the "Wildlands Project" was to be the basis for protecting biodiversity in the treaty. This draconian, pantheistic plan calls for setting aside about 50 percent of America into reserve wilderness areas, interconnecting corridors, and human buffer zones where human use would be eliminated or severely restricted.

Ratification seemed certain when Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-ME) scheduled the ratification vote for August 8, 1994. After considerable prayer, Coffman sent a fax alert through the Alliance for America’s fax network to 4400 organizations and individuals, asking them to call their Senators.

The phone response to the alert stunned everyone. It was so massive it overloaded the Senate’s phone system and caused it to crash repeatedly for days! The Senate told the Alliance for that to happen, between one to four million Americans would have had to receive that fax in the 24 hours following its release! The miraculous phone response, along with the hard work of a lot of people, convinced 35 Republican Senators to withdraw their support. The treaty vote was temporarily postponed.

Just prior to this miracle, McDonnell had produced a 100-page analysis of the treaty revealing the existence of a draft UN document called the Global Biodiversity Assessment (GBA), which would be used to write the implementing language of the treaty. The four men convinced the Senate to request a copy of the GBA from the UN. Incredibly, the UN told the U.S. Senate that the GBA did not even exist, nor did they intend to write it!

Without the GBA, ratification once again seemed certain when the next vote was taken, which was scheduled for September 30.

Again, prayer was the order of the day. And again God intervened on September 29 when, out of the blue, McDonnell received a copy of Section 10 of the supposedly non-existent GBA! As suspected, the document detailed an outrageous plan to organize civilization around nature, viciously attacking western civilization and Christianity in the process. It also just happened to state that the Wildlands Project would be used as the basis to protect biodiversity!

God had delivered the proof needed to kill the treaty. Coffman, who has a Ph.D. in ecology and ecosystem analysis, had felt led two years earlier to prepare color maps graphically illustrating the enormous impact of the treaty. Although unfinished, the maps were enlarged, and along with the GBA, were taken out on the Senate floor by Senator Hutchinson (R-TX)—an hour before the vote on the treaty was scheduled!

Voight had also called Senator Mitchell’s office, believing that if Mitchell knew that the UN had lied about the existence of the GBA, he would withdraw the treaty. Within an hour, Voight received the call from Mitchell’s office reporting that the treaty had been withdrawn!

The billion dollar giant was down. Lamb, McDonnell, Voight and Coffman would later create Sovereignty International to continue to expose the emerging world government and religion.

It was not in God’s timing that the Biodiversity Treaty be ratified. It doesn’t require an army to defeat a giant. It requires willingness, vigilance and hard work. He could even use you—if you are willing. V ks