After this fantastic manifestation of the Holy Spirit, another voice is heard. This time, the voice says, ’Peace, peace be unto you because of your faith in my Well Beloved, who was from the foundation of the world.’ This must be the voice of Elohim, who always intervenes to introduce his Son (see 3 Nephi 11:7; Matt 3:17 and JS-Hist 1:17). The quality of this voice is much like that of the Son, ’pleasant…as if it were a whisper.’ The voice of Elohim is more graphically described right before the appearance of the Savior to the Nephites, ’it was not a harsh voice, neither was it a loud voice; nevertheless, and notwithstanding it being a small voice it did pierce them that did hear to the center, insomuch that there was no part of their frame that it did not cause to quake; yea, it did pierce them to the very soul, and did cause their hearts to burn’ (3 Nephi 11:3).
Interestingly, the scriptures give us a description of the voices of all three members of the Godhead. The descriptions are remarkably similar. The voice of Elohim is ’a pleasant voice, as if it were a whisper…a small voice [that] did pierce them that did hear to the center’ (Hel 5:46; 3 Nephi 11:3). The voice of Jehovah is described as, ’a still voice of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it did pierce even to the very soul’ (Hel 5:30). The voice of the Holy Ghost is described by Joseph Smith as, ’the still small voice, which whispereth through and pierceth all things, and often times it maketh my bones to quake’ (DC 85:6). Certainly, it is the Holy Ghost which speaks to us with a still, small voice to guide us through mortality, but the voice of God is one, just as the mind, will, and purpose of God is one. Therefore, if we were to hear the voice of the Father or the Son, it would sound much the same.