With all due respect you came to this thread to make a point as I recall.... so why did you make your statement.. to see if it would go unchallenged?
With regards to this ....
A person has no ability to remove the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, then ultimately it requires and act of God which you agree cannot happen
So explain to me how this works because I see contradiction myself.
When I said yesterday, I do not want to have this conversation and you continued; why do you think I said it in the first place? I can copy and paste my 20 standard answers into one spreadsheet and you can do the same and so we continue in circles without any progress. That is why I always try to learn something new, maybe one day we can sit together and just enjoy the word of God with its treasures… but unfortunately it always turns out into a mudslinging contest.
To answer your question, there is no contradiction. 1 Cor 15:46 teaches us that God first gave us these pictures in the natural to understand and reveal the spiritual. Things like the feast days and the tabernacle are shadows of what is happening in the spirit. The map of the tabernacle is basically the same map we see in Revelation of the throne room. So Abba Father first revealed himself in the physical before He revealed the Spiritual (NT). But the two will be the same.
In Exodus 13:20-22 God said that the pillar of cloud and fire never departed from Israel. So He was in their presence all the time. The Hebrew word mush, is being translated as “He took not away” and the Hebrew picture is not God following His children or walking next to them, it is God physically putting His hand on us to comfort us and guide us. When we are in relationship with our King, He will guide us. The Bible teaches us God speaks with us every day. If I don’t hear His voice, who’s fault is it? Why are so many Christians not hearing His voice today? He is still the same God that discussed things with Moses face to face.
One thing we have to remember is that God cannot change and cannot go back on His word. So if He said something will happen when we do something, it is true and will happen. God takes covenant very serious and one example is when Judah gave a promise to his dad to protect Benjamin when they visit Pharaoh, God was true to that promise when the tribes split hundreds of years later when He divorced Israel. The two tribes that stayed together “by chance” were Judah and Benjamin.
When we understand this we can see that when we get to a place where we say “I am not a Christian anymore, I had enough” God will give us a bill of divorce just like He did with Israel. It is still the same God. The only way Satan can get a foothold is when we are outside the guidelines of God’s word.