Exodus 32:11 says, And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?  Moses questioned why God was angry with His people that He had delivered from Egypt with such a great display of power.  Moses did not know what was going on down the mountain, but God did.  When we as followers of Christ are doing something wrong today, the world may not know it, but God does.  We should not be surprised when God is upset if His people do not obey His word.  Verse twelve states, Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.  Moses continued to question God, saying that the Egyptians would claim that God had delivered the people of Israel simply for mischief.  Moses asked God to repent, or change His mind.  This was quite a blood thing to do.  If a person believers that God has already determined everything, it would be a useless thing to do.  I believe that if our prayers for others have no effect on God and His actions toward them, then we likewise are doing a useless thing.  Verse thirteen adds, Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.  Moses reminded God of His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.  I don't believe that God had forgotten His promise just as He will never forget His promise of everlasting salvation to those who accept Christ as Savior and Lord today.  I also believe that our actions can cause God to be angry with us when we disobey His leadership.  Verse fourteen declares, And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.  This is quite a statement.  This tells us that God can be influenced by our prayers of petition, but I don't believe that God ever needs to repent.  Verse fifteen says, And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.  Moses went down the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony, which were written on both sides.  When we come down off a mountain top experience with God today, we bring His word with us, not written in stone, but written in our heart.  Verse sixteen decades, And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.  This tells us that God had engraved the tablets.  The words of truth and the way to salvation and a successful life will always be found God's word.  Moses did not write these laws, but God did.  Verse seventeen adds, And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.  Joshua met Moses and told him that it sounded like a war was going on in the camp, and there really was.  It was a war between following God or following the false god that the people had created.  There will always be a war between God and the powers of this world.  The question is, which will we follow?  Verse eighteen concludes, And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.  Moses said that it wasn't the sound of suffering but the sounds of joy that he heard.  Many people today are rejoicing as they follow the false God's of the world.  That are not overcome by some government forcing them into servitude, but by following their own selfish desires.