Are the prophetic books relevant today?

Frequently we pass over the prophetic books in search of more uplifting messages. This is even more true of the prophecies contained in the minor prophets, but while preparing for a sermon series later this year on Micah, I ran across this quotation that I wanted to share,

"prophecy is the Eternal's word and so continues to endure and live forever...our Lord Jesus Christ and his apostles often cited the OT by using the present tense: "says" rather than "said." They reinforced its present relevance by the use of the pronouns "we" and "you" instead of "they" and "them." (Bruce Waltke, Micah IN The Minor Prophets, pg. 614-615)

For a listing of these present citations, we can look at Matthew 22:43, Luke 4:12, John 12:39, John 19:37, James 2:23, James 4:5-6, 1 Peter 2:6 for a few examples.

In another place, Waltke quotes Pusey,

"Every judgment is an earnest, a forerunner, a part, of the final judgment and an ensample of its principles. It is but 'the last great link in the chain,' which unites God's dealings in time with eternity.  God's judgments on one imply a judgment on all.  His judgments in time imply a Judgment beyond time." (ibid, pg. 620)

These quotes encourage me to look deeper into the prophets to see who they were testifying to and why sin is such a problem, and what its ultimate end will be.  I hope you will do the same.