“Sanctified ones,” “holy ones,” and “saints” derive from two Hebrew words: kadosh or plural k’doshim, used ten times in the Old Testament, and hassid or plural hassidim, used nineteen times in the Old Testament.
Verse 3 corrects the statement that appears in the King James Version: “I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger is not upon them that rejoice in my highness.”
Can we identify the “sanctified ones,” the “mighty ones” who are called and set apart (mustered) for the battle as the missionary force of the latter-day kingdom? Anyone who has been in the middle of the royal army assembled at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, has possibly felt power unequalled in any other single place in the world. These warriors of God do come from distant places (“from a far country, from the end of heaven”), and they are certainly going forth to conquer on life’s great battlefield, to overthrow the whole wicked world, to destroy evil by establishing righteousness.
That “mighty army of the Lord,” however, is only part of what he calls the “sanctified ones”—all the Saints, the citizens of his kingdom, are involved in the battle, including help from the other side of the veil.