If Jesus is king and ruling with all authority on earth and allows the Antichrist to murder Jews and Christians, wreak havoc, issue the mark through the false prophet and doesn't lift a hand to protect His kingdom, you are not speaking of the Jesus in the bible.
Do you not understand that Satan is only given 42 months if there are some humans who will choose to chop their heads off? There is no AC running around on earth during the Trumpets and Thunders. God does not protect His kingdom, because they all left during those 42 months.
Do you not understand how God removes his hand per Job?
"Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord."
Those sheep and wheat harvested in the final harvest will not be on earth during those 42 months. God does not remove His protection this time. He removes the redeemed, themselves. The kingdom on earth is put on hold for 42 months. God does give Satan 100% control. But not to persecute the sheep and wheat. It is to persecute those who will be beheaded. But even that persecution stops after the head is severed. You cannot persecute a soul that has left the body. You cannot persecute a dead body.
Satan is not the one chopping heads off. Why would he give those who reject him an easy way out? It is not suicide either. People are making a serious decision between life and death. Death is keeping one's head. Life is removing one's head. That is why this is the time of AoD. Life is so messed up, that one has to literal die to be redeemed.
John does not say who removes these heads. Why just assume Satan and company do it? There are many ways to die, but removing one's head is pretty specific. Only those without a head are resurrected in Revelation 20:4.
What if you took the mark, but later chopped your head off, does that count, or is the mark final, and removing your head after is just pointless?
The point you seem to reject is that once the 7th Seal is opened, names will be removed, not that judgment can or cannot happen. They go hand in hand though. It is the finality of God's decision, not even man's. Jesus determines the sheep, they remain in the Lamb's book of life. Jesus determines the goats, they are removed from the Lamb's book of life. So as with the wheat and the tares. People are literally being removed from the earth, not just ear marked to live once they have been removed from the Lamb's book of life. At the declaration of the harvest being over, the 7th Trumpet, many humans are still alive and unaccounted for. This is when Daniel 9:27 is reality. The Atonement Covenant is confirmed with those left. If those left are not covered, because they will never choose life, then that is the end. No 42 months. If the Atonement Covenant is confirmed, and some are known by God to choose life, which is a future chopping off of their head, then time is extended for 42 months, and the AoD allowed, Satan given 100% control.
The finality is that God gives the mark and removes one from the Lamb's book of life because that is their personal choice, they made in their mind, and God made their choice a reality. There is no take back of redemption one never accepted. The removal of one's head is the personal choice to remain in the Lamb's book of life, instead of taking the mark. The persecution comes from not being able to participate in the economy of every day life until one does have the mark. But even those with the mark will keep on killing each other, that is what happens now, even under God’s grace and mercy. Even more so in utter abomination and wickedness.
Yes the daily sacrifice, the plan of salvation, and grace is removed from the earth. People will not be saved by grace through faith. They will be later redeemed by faith, if one accepts that removing their head and given up this life is worth it, rather than taking the mark and living in Satan's deception, whatever Satan will offer people after God took it all away. Remember that at the 6th Seal all mankind's works were burned up? 2 Peter 3. Literally all that is left are horses and stones. If Satan restores normality in the Trumpets and Thunders, he will already be out and about peddling his goods.
Why does any one think life will be normal after the 6th Seal?