No one is looking

While at the ministry service we attend,  someone asked a question that I am sure has been asked many times.

Can our loved ones see us from heaven?  The answer was and is no, and the reason is stated in the scripture.

Heaven is described as a place where there is no sin, no tear, and no worry.  If our loved ones were to “look down from heaven” so to speak,  they would enter into sin.  The earth and its inhabitants is a place full of sin, while heaven is a place devoid of any sin.

This made perfect sense to me.

I then remembered reading about this question before, so I went to the GMR bible questions forum and did a quick search and found the following

Luke 16:26: Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’(NKJ)

This is the scripture that is used often, and this is the answer I found from Apostle Les D. Crause:

When Jesus died he descended into the place called Abraham’s bosom, and proclaimed the good news to those who had died in faith before He paid the price on Calvary. Then He broke free of Hades and arose from the dead. When he did this he liberated the souls of those in Abraham’s bosom and lifted them up to a new place of keeping, which is now known as Paradise or the Third Heaven.

Since the passage refers to the situation before Jesus died, we can no longer see those on the “other side.”