On November 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama, a senator from the state of Illinois, was elected to the White House as the forty-fourth president of the United States. This momentous event overwhelmed America and took the whole world by surprise. Although he had led his opponent, Senator John McCain, throughout the period preceding the election in the opinion polls, no one really believed that the timing was right for an African American president of the United States.

In The Messiah Conquers the White House, author Aying Godman combines scripture, biography, politics, and numerology to...