When Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:4 that "the earth abideth forever," it wasn't intended as a statement about whether or not the earth shall never end in future - he was just saying that the earth exists trans-generationally.
It's similar to when Moses wrote that the Levitical priesthood should continue "forever in Israel" - it wasn't intended as a statement about whether or not the Levitical priesthood should never end - because we now know that the Levitical priesthood was only ever intended to be temporary - it was always intended to pass away when Jesus came.
And as for Ephesians 3:21, it doesn't actually say the earth will never end, especially not in the Greek.
Therefore if we want to assert that the earth shall remain literally ‘forever’ – we will have to establish the case for it elsewhere than in the above Scriptures, because the above Scriptures didn’t have that intent.
But even if it’s true that the earth shall literally remain forever, I feel the Bible still teaches that the current age will come to an end – when Jesus returns and abolishes physical death. I don’t feel that the “end of the world(KJV)” has happened yet – because I feel the Bible says that there is to be a universal, physical resurrection of all the dead on that day.
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