The mandating of vaccines could shape a terrible future, the former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, and fellow Seventh-day Adventist recently warned.
"The really important thing here is for us to recognize that this is America that we're living in," Carson told Monday's "Eric Bolling: The Balance."
"This is a place where people came so that they could be free. And the whole concept of mandates, no matter how wonderful you think they are, are opening the door to something that could be pretty terrible in the future."
Carson shared his concern that politicians could impose "some types of penalties" on Americans for having unorthodox views, and that is something "we have to think about."
Carson believes vaccines are good, but vaccination mandates, however, are not, he said.
The retired neurosurgeon concluded that "the damage that we do with mandates that are unnecessary is tremendous. And we can't afford it."
Ben also said that the United States is moving towards an aggressive totalitarian government.
We know that the United States will demonstrate totalitarian leadership in the Time of the End. It has to happen. In a real sense, it is less about people than it is about principalities and powers seeking control over the earth. But people are the pawns in such totalitarian impulses, and all must choose which side they will honor, whether it be the divine liberty of God, or the compelling duress of the enemies of God. As it is written in Desire of Ages 321,
We must inevitably be under the control of the one or the other of the two great powers that are contending for the supremacy of the world. It is not necessary for us deliberately to choose the service of the kingdom of darkness in order to come under its dominion. We have only to neglect to ally ourselves with the kingdom of light.
The time will come when we shall be brought before councils and before thousands for His name's sake, and each one will have to give the reason of his faith. Let us remain faithful today, that we may stand during the tests of tomorrow.
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“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan” (Proverbs 29:2).