Messianic Jewish author Jonathan Cahn says he was the unidentified passenger involved in a mid-air altercation last week that led to a man being duct-taped to his seat and facing criminal charges, characterizing the incident as “the forces of darkness” trying to prevent him from getting his message out.
In a video Monday, Cahn revealed his role in an airline confrontation that resulted in Arthur Wayne Lundeen, 67, being duct-taped to his seat and facing criminal charges of disorderly conduct and second-degree assault.
The video began with Cahn summarizing the headlines of stories about an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Newark that was diverted to Baltimore after a “man duct taped to seat went crazy on the flight after shouting racial slurs.” Cahn alleged that the media depiction of the incident “doesn’t even begin to touch what really happened.” The incident occurred two days after the release of Cahn's latest book, The Altar of Pergamon: The Mystery of the Dark Angel and the Future of the World.
He prefaced his discussion about the confrontation by stating that supernatural events often seem to happen every time he releases a book.
After describing his latest book as “a big colossal mystery” that consists of “a man and a woman uncovering the mystery to bring it to the world” as “forces of darkness” seek to “stop them from bringing it to the world,” he contended that the “forces of the dark” were targeting him because he was “bringing that same mystery to the world now.” In addition to the incident on the plane, Cahn noted how a “large vertical rectangular blotch of darkness” appeared on his computer as he flew out to Dallas a few days earlier and his cell phone shut down when he tried to make a call.