Religious 23: Enoch and Aliens
Eph 5:11: “…have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
Amos 3:7 “…God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.”
Why this post?
To examine why the Book of Enoch does not belong in the Biblical canon — and why its growing popularity is not accidental.
Introduction
Something interesting is happening on YouTube right now. Search “Book of Enoch” and you’ll get millions of views, thousands of comments, and a tidal wave of content saying the same thing: this book was removed from the Bible. They don’t want you to know. Satan is hiding it from you.
It’s compelling. Really compelling. Especially if you’ve been following this series and you know the Bible has been tampered with — which it has, as we covered in Post 7: Which Bible?. So when someone says “this was hidden,” your ears prick up.
But here’s the thing. Knowing that some manuscripts were corrupted doesn’t mean every excluded text is therefore valid. That’s not how logic works. And when you actually examine the Book of Enoch against what we know of Scripture — the KJV line, the Textus Receptus, the manuscripts that survived intact — it doesn’t hold up. Not even close.
This post is not my opinion. It’s an aggregation of sources — scholars, researchers, and commentators — that I’ve pulled together so you can decide for yourself.
How the Bible was compiled
Before we get to Enoch specifically, we need a brief detour into how the canon was formed. Because the canon didn’t happen by accident, and it wasn’t random.
As covered in Post 7, the Old Testament was complete around 400 BC and the New Testament around 100 AD. The manuscripts that survived — and formed the basis of the King James Bible — trace back to the Antioch line. The Eastern church. The manuscripts not compromised by the Alexandrian school, which is where the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus came from — the same manuscripts that support the modern corrupted versions.
The canon was determined by a straightforward set of criteria: was it written by a prophet or apostle with verifiable connection to events? Was it internally consistent with the rest of Scripture? Was it universally recognised by the early church? Did it have a verified Hebrew or Greek original?
Books that didn’t meet these criteria were excluded. Not out of conspiracy. Out of rigorous examination. And the same process that rejected the Sinaiticus garbage — as Walter Veith and Martin Smith put it bluntly in WUP 169, “they took some of them out of garbage cans” — also rejected the Apocrypha. Including the Book of Enoch.
Worth noting: the Council of Trent, which added the Apocrypha to the Catholic Bible, was staffed entirely by men with no knowledge of Hebrew. As we covered in Post 8: Roman Catholicism vs Protestant Christianity, the Catholic Church’s track record of adding to and distorting Scripture is well documented.
What is the Book of Enoch?
Let’s be fair to it first.
Enoch was a real person. Genesis describes him as a man who walked with God for 365 years and was taken — he didn’t die. Jude 14 quotes him prophesying about the Lord coming with thousands of saints. He was clearly significant. Nobody disputes that.
The Book of Enoch claims to be his writings. But here’s the first problem: scholars — including those sympathetic to the text — acknowledge it was written by multiple anonymous authors somewhere between 300 BC and 100 AD. That’s not a minor detail. That’s thousands of years after Enoch lived. As educator Wendy Parker notes, “the historians say the book does not really contain authentic words of the ancient Enoch since he would have lived several thousand years earlier than the first known appearance of the book.”
It’s not one manuscript either. It’s a composite of five distinct sections, written by different people at different times, never originally intended to be a single book. The only complete version in existence is in the Ethiopian language. No Hebrew original has ever been found — which is significant, because every legitimate Old Testament book has a verified Hebrew source.
Fragments turned up in the Dead Sea Scrolls. That sounds impressive. But finding something preserved alongside scripture doesn’t make it scripture. Libraries contain many books.
The “Jude argument” — let’s deal with this
The biggest reason people push the Book of Enoch as legitimate is that Jude quotes it. Jude 14-15 references Enoch prophesying. Doesn’t that make it inspired?
No. And here’s why.
Paul quotes a Cretan pagan poet in Titus 1:12 — “One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars.” He quotes the Greek poet Aratus in Acts 17:28 — “For we are also his offspring.” Neither of those poets are in the Bible. Neither of their works are canonical. Paul quoting them means exactly one thing: he found a useful statement that served a point.
Jude quoting a saying attributed to Enoch is the same principle. It doesn’t canonise the source any more than Paul canonised Cretan poetry. The early church understood this distinction clearly — which is exactly why they quoted from Enoch in places while simultaneously rejecting it as Scripture.
Jerome, who translated the Bible into Latin, rejected it. Augustine rejected it, specifically questioning whether it genuinely came from the biblical Enoch given how late it appeared. The Septuagint — the Greek Old Testament — doesn’t include it. The Textus Receptus doesn’t include it. The KJV doesn’t include it. The only church that canonises it is the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which — as covered in Post 7 — is not part of the manuscript lineage we trust.
Where it contradicts Scripture — specifically
This is where it gets serious. Because it’s not just that Enoch was excluded on procedural grounds. It actively contradicts the Bible on core doctrine. Several times. Clearly.
1. The origin of sin
The Bible is unambiguous. Sin entered the world through Adam and Eve (Genesis 3, Romans 5:12). That’s the foundation of the entire redemption narrative — humanity fell, God provided a remedy through Christ.
The Book of Enoch tells a completely different story. Sin was introduced by fallen angels — the “Watchers” — who descended to earth, taught mankind forbidden knowledge, and corrupted everything. The blame shifts from human choice to angelic interference. That’s not a small difference. That completely undermines the theology of the Fall, human responsibility, and the need for a redeemer.
2. Angels cannot marry
This is probably the clearest contradiction in the entire book. The central narrative of Enoch is that 200 Watchers — fallen angels — descended to Mount Hermon, swore an oath together, and took human women as wives. They fathered giants called the Nephilim. This entire framework depends on angels being physical, sexual beings capable of reproduction.
Jesus addressed this directly. Matthew 22:30 — “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” Angels do not marry. They do not procreate. Christ made that clear. Walter Veith said it plainly in WUP 169: “there already we can throw the entire Book of Enoch in the garbage can where it belongs, because angels do not procreate.”
The “sons of God” in Genesis 6 who took the daughters of men — and this is the passage Enoch expands on — are more consistently interpreted as the line of Seth (the godly line) intermarrying with the line of Cain. Not angels becoming physical and breeding with humans. Veith again: “the sons of God, in other words the line of Seth... the children of Seth attracted by the beauty of the daughters of Cain’s descendants displeased the Lord by intermarrying with them. That’s the true state of affairs — not fallen angels procreating with human women.”
3. Enoch as mediator
In the Book of Enoch, the fallen Watchers ask Enoch to intercede with God on their behalf. Enoch acts as a go-between — a mediator between the fallen angels and God.
1 Timothy 2:5 — “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” One. Not Enoch. Not angels. Christ alone. Introducing Enoch as an angelic mediator figure isn’t just theologically awkward — it contradicts a foundational New Testament declaration.
4. Salvation by works and hidden knowledge
Parts of Enoch suggest that righteousness is achieved through works and access to secret knowledge — what the book calls the wisdom the Watchers revealed. This directly contradicts Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
As the Candid Truth channel notes, “the focus is on angelic secrets, not on repentance or redemption. That’s not revelation. That’s deception.”
5. Cosmic geography and internal errors
The Book of Enoch describes a cosmology that is simply wrong. It describes seven stars burning like the sun — the planets, referencing ancient pagan astronomy where the closest planets were believed to generate their own light. They don’t. It describes giants 4,500 feet tall fathering children with human women. It mentions Mount Hermon and Mount Sinai as existing before the flood — which couldn’t be, because the flood catastrophically reshaped the earth’s geography.
These aren’t symbolic or allegorical statements. They’re presented as literal facts. And they’re wrong.
6. Angels assigned incorrect roles
The Book of Enoch incorrectly assigns the roles of Michael and Gabriel. Michael — described throughout canonical Scripture as the warrior archangel — is given functions in Enoch that don’t match. This is a detail that would be self-evident to anyone genuinely inspired by the same Holy Spirit who authored Daniel and Revelation.
The Alexandrian connection
Here’s something that doesn’t get mentioned enough. The Book of Enoch was preserved and championed in Alexandria — the exact same intellectual environment that produced the corrupted Alexandrian manuscripts we traced in Post 7.
Alexandria was the hub of occult knowledge, esoteric philosophy, and what the Candid Truth channel describes as “the birthplace of the counterfeit faith.” The same city. The same schools. The same stream that gave us the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts that modern Bible translations rely on — and that we showed were untrustworthy — also gave us enthusiastic support for texts like Enoch.
That’s not a coincidence. It’s a pattern.
Veith’s comment in WUP 169 is direct: “Bibles that are based on these manuscripts have the same nonsense in them like the Book of Enoch. Of course.” The corrupted manuscript tradition and the apocryphal book tradition are branches of the same tree.
Why is it so popular right now?
This is the question that matters most for this series.
The Book of Enoch is exploding on YouTube, in New Age circles, in UFO communities, in conspiracy spaces. The Why The Book of Enoch Will Bring the Final Deception video shows US government representatives appearing on Joe Rogan discussing non-human intelligence, interdimensional beings, and technology that defies physics — and specifically connecting this to books “removed from the Bible.” Congressional representative Anna Paulina Luna suggested on air that books like Enoch explain what the government is now encountering.
Think about that. Government officials referencing apocryphal texts as explanatory frameworks for what they’re calling extraterrestrial or non-human contact.
The Shocking Truth About the Book of Enoch presenter notes the obvious: the Watcher narrative in Enoch maps perfectly onto the modern alien/UFO narrative. Fallen beings descending from the sky. Imparting forbidden knowledge. Producing hybrid offspring. It’s the same story — just relabelled for a secular audience.
And as the Candid Truth channel points out, today’s Enoch movement includes New Age channelers claiming to speak with the angels named in Enoch, TikTok witches invoking “Watcher energy,” and UFO-Nephilim cults mixing Genesis with alien theology. Occultist Aleister Crowley — who developed a system of ceremonial magic specifically called Enochian magic — used the Book of Enoch as foundational material. His system was built around communicating with the very angelic beings Enoch names.
2 Corinthians 11:14 — “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” The deception doesn’t announce itself. It comes dressed in something that sounds almost right.
As covered in Post 19: Final Prophecies and Post 18: End of Days, we’re in a period where deception of the elect is specifically prophesied. Matthew 24:24 — “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
Veith and Smith in WUP 169 said it plainly: “There’s a lot of people going astray on this — that even the elect may be deceived.”
The wise shall understand
There’s one more thing worth addressing. Some people cite a quote from various sources suggesting that “the wise of these last days should understand” the Apocrypha. This gets used to say we’re supposed to be studying Enoch in the end times.
But read it carefully. Understanding that these books are spurious is the understanding. Knowing what to reject is wisdom. As Veith put it: “my personal view is yes — we must know that the devil is going to bring in the spurious, and that the wise will be able to discern between the spurious and the true.”
The Bible is the standard. That’s it. It’s pure, unadulterated, and — as covered from Post 6 onwards — internally self-explanatory. It doesn’t need supplements. If you want end-time prophecy, read Daniel and Revelation. If you want to understand the pre-flood world, the canonical text covers it.
The Book of Enoch fills gaps that Scripture left intentionally closed.
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So why was the Book of Enoch written — and why is it being pushed so hard right now?
Because the Bible has one massive problem for the enemy: it’s complete. The plan of salvation is laid out. The end is revealed. There are no gaps left to exploit.
Enoch fills those gaps. With fallen angels as the real architects of human corruption, with secret knowledge as the path to enlightenment, with a cosmic cast of named demonic beings to fascinate and distract. It moves the blame for sin away from human choice — and away from the remedy God provided. No Fall. No need for a Redeemer.
And right now? The UFO disclosure narrative needs a religious framework. Governments are priming the public for “non-human intelligence.” When those entities eventually show up and start talking — and the evidence suggests that’s the plan — they’ll need a Bible that accommodates them.
The Book of Enoch is that Bible.
As always, this is an aggregation of sources, not my personal theological position:
Sources
WUP 169 — Walter Veith & Martin Smith: Book of Enoch? Revival Now? AI Rewriting Bible? Take Back Sunday — Clash of Minds (YouTube, July 2023).
Why The Book of Enoch Will Bring the Final Deception — YouTube. Discusses the UFO/alien connection to Enoch and the government narrative around non-human intelligence.
Shocking Truth About the Book of Enoch — YouTube. Features educator Wendy Parker examining the book’s authorship, structure, and contradictions with Genesis.
What Satan Doesn’t Want You to Know About the Book of Enoch — YouTube. Examines the overlap between Enoch’s popularity and the alien/interdimensional narrative.
Does The Book of Enoch Have Hidden Truth? — Candid Truth (YouTube). Traces the Alexandrian connection, Crowley’s Enochian magic system, and the occult use of the book.