Rehoboth was one of the ten subpotentates chosen by Nicolae Carpathia put in charge of the United African States in the Left Behind books. He was a tyrant who pillaged his own country of Sudan and made multi-millionaires of his wives and children, and thus was greatly hated by his own people. He was given the subpotentate position as an insult to Mwangati Ngumo, who had stepped down from his role as the Secretary-General of the United Nations expecting to be given both the subpotentate role and licensed use of the synthetic fertilizer formula created by Chaim Rosenzweig to help his own country Botswana. He and Ngumo were bitter rivals, and this rivalry came to a head around the time of the sixth Trumpet Judgment in "Assassins", where there was an attempt to assassinate Nicolae Carpathia in