Fourth, President Harold B. Lee suggested that the uniqueness of Moriancumer’s experience lay in the fact that he saw the Lord Jesus as he would be, that is, he saw a vision of Christ as his body would be during his mortal ministry in some two thousand years. “He saw the finger of the Lord,” President Lee observed, “as he touched each of those sixteen stones, and they were luminous. And then he was amazed because he said he saw not only the finger of a spiritual being, but his faith was so great that he saw the kind of a body that he would have when he came down to the earth. It was of flesh and blood-flesh, blood, and bones.
And the Master said, ’No man has had this kind of faith.’ ” (“To Be on Speaking Terms with God,” pp. 8-9.) Support for this interpretation may come from the Savior: “Because of thy faith thou hast seen that I shall take upon me flesh and blood” (verse 9). Also consider the following words of Moroni:: “Jesus showed himself unto this man in the spirit, even after the manner and in the likeness of the same body even as he showed himself unto the Nephites. And he ministered unto him even as he ministered unto the Nephites.” (Verses 17-18.)