How do I respond to personal Protestant "revelations"?

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Roughly over the last year, (mostly via the internet), I’ve encountered accounts from a few Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Protestants etc on Christian websites and Youtube about supernatural experiences with God, such as
  • Out of body experiences
  • Visions of Heaven/Hell, being taken to these places
  • Messages from God
Some of them, being somewhat extremist, preach messages about the Catholic Faith diluting, corrupting and damning authentic Christianity. Things like, “There is NO purgatory,” “all Catholics will go to Hell if they don’t convert to know the real Jesus” and “Their reverence of Mary and the saints is Idol worship, there is actually a demon hidden within each statue, each rosary.”

These claims never bothered me before when coming from your average Evangelical, but coming from ones who’ve claimed to have fantastic and supernatural revelations from God that say the same thing, is a different story. They that say they’ve had the Other Side of Spiritual Existence confirm those beliefs.
I’ve grown in my Catholic faith to where I’m not fearful of my Catholic practice leading me to Hell, but **how does one reconcile the sincere good-intentioned faith of non-Catholics who claim to have reportedly been told by God that the Catholic Church is false? ** If they believe in a real Jesus Christ who suffered and died and rose and ascended, and claim to have met him in a more-than-real way, and say these things, what do as Catholics understand their “revelations” to be?

Thank you!
 
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