Yes, the Lord could make them disappear but instead He’s allowing them to confess their unfitness for heaven. As CS Lewis, said, all who go to hell ultimately chose it.
And gotta admit there’s nothing to cause someone to confess they are unfit for heaven than kneeling them on the ground in orange jumpsuits with a sword above their heads.
Oops, I got a detail wrong. That’s ISIS, not Christianity.
Christians get so full of “leave us alone or we trample you” sometimes, that they forget Jesus never planned such a life for them. They are planned (if they will cooperate) to be witnesses first and foremost, that are no more fragile edifices than Jesus was. People will begin to ask what manner of people these are, and their number will grow beyond what their enemies could possibly persecute away. It happened at the Roman lions, and it happens today.
Self defense with sword is for warding off murder threats, not for meddlesome bureaucrats who spout such arrant nonsense that not even Caesar’s court will believe it.