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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Traditionally, Christianity has taught Heaven as a place of eternal life and the dwelling place of Angels and the Throne of God. In most Christian denominations, belief in the afterlife is professed in the major creeds, such as the Nicene Creed, which states: "We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come." In the Christian Bible, concepts about the future "Kingdom of Heaven" are also professed in several scriptural prophecies of the new (or renewed) Earth said to follow the resurrection of the dead — particularly the books of Isaiah and Revelation and other sources of Christian eschatology. The resurrected Jesus is said to have ascended to heaven where he now sits at the Right Hand of God and will return to earth in the Second Coming. Mary, his mother, according to Catholic (Christianity`s largest denomination) tradition is also said to have been assumed into heaven and is titled the Queen of Heaven. Many also believe Elijah and Enoch were taken into heaven. The Book of Revelation mentions a War in Heaven between Michael the Archangel and his angels against the Dragon (or serpent) and his angels, the later commonly known as the Fallen angels.