Yes, it would be an incredible scenario for Satan to ask God to worship him. What would God say to Satan at such a suggestion? If Jesus was God, why would he tell Satan that "man" shall live by every word that comes from the mouth of God?
If Jesus was "the Word" in the way some suppose, why would God have other words? Going back to the baptism poses the same problem. I would say that the Voice that announced Jesus as son was "a word" from God. How could that be?
I think what we see in the baptism relates to what God said in Genesis, "let the dry land appear." Jesus heard and obeyed. A Voice from Heaven pronounced the result good. The temptation follows, and that relates to how the "grass," "herbs" and "trees" appear. The Bible is astonishingly consistent in how it uses symbols. There are some exceptions, but it's consistent for the most part. There is a part of man that is like a plant. We even refer to bodies in comas as "vegetative." So it is. This part of the body, at least for now, is surely not permanent. If someone is wicked, it's definitely temporary.
Psalm 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psalm 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Isaiah 40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Surely when John mentions grass in Revelation, we should not believe he's talking about literal grass.
Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
That verse mentions trees too. That refers to men who survived the grass or herb stage and developed into trees. There is a parable about how man develops spiritually, being a herb at first and then becoming like a tree.
Mark 4:30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
I would say Jesus had already gone through the grass stage, even before the baptism. At the temptation we see him "up in the air." The angels are the fowls of the air -- air signifying the second heaven. He was also busy on earth growing wheat to make more bread.
It may be worth noting at this point how days 4 to 6 relate to days 1 to 3. This is almost like a musical scale where notes are similar but up an octave. Day 1 has light appearing, and Day 4 has lights appeared as forms within the firmament. Day 2 is about lower and upper waters; and Day 5 is about creatures appearing in those. Day 3 is about dry land appearing, and Day 6 is about land animals. Day 7 seems isolated, a day of rest; and nothing is said in Genesis about Day 8, but by inference it also corresponds to Day 1 and has something to do with light. So it was, jumping ahead a little, because Jesus appeared in his new body on the day after the sabbath -- the "first day" of the week in one way but it can also be seen as an expression of 8.
Going on now to how Transfiguration corresponds to Day 4 of Genesis. We may be tempted to miss how the others were involved. We may not perceive how Peter, James, and John were also "overshadowed." The same word is used to describe how Jesus was conceived.
Luk 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Matthew 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
What is a shadow anyway? By itself, it is nothing, being the lack of light; but if we see a shadow, it tells us that something is there. We may not see the thing casting the shadow, but we know something is there and its outline or form tells us something about the thing we cannot see. So it is with the "shadow" of God -- the image and likeness of God -- and in the Hebrew, "image" is related to the idea of a shadow. Idols as images are nothing -- but the image of God is like an outline that can be filled in. This "image" as an "outline" is what a spiritual mantle is. The Spirit can surround someone the way a garment covers him, and then the Spirit does its work to fill things in in the right way.
There are seven beings at the Transfiguration. James, Peter and John were there. Moses, Jesus and Elijah were there, and God was there manifested as a Voice from the Cloud. We face the same problem here as at the baptism if we do not see the Word of God at work. If we say Jesus was the Word, who's speaking at the Transfiguration? The matter can be resolved by seeing that Jesus relates to the Word in several ways. He heard and obeyed it. He became what God intended, and then He too could speak the Word of the Father. His words were spirit, he said. We cannot box Jesus in by saying he was limited to being the Word since he could also speak words of spirit.
I am almost sure that Jesus was in the center with Moses on his left and Elijah on his right. Peter would have been below Jesus, receiving his mantle; James below Elijah receiving his; and John below Elijah receiving his. Spiritually, the Power of God flowed downwards as if through three pillars. Indeed Paul may have had a vision of how the three Apostles "seemed" to look in the spiritual world.
Galatians 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
They "seemd" or "appeared" like pillars. The word in Greek has to do being perceived. I don't think Paul was insulting them by saying they weren't really pillars, they just "seemed" to be. I also see these three Apostles as receiving mantles at the Transfiguration so they would become sources of Light in a special way that other Apostles did not. Jesus' face shone like the sun. The text doesn't say so, but I like to think of Peter, James and John as stars.
What of Days five and six then? This post is long enough, but I believe those days helps explain what Jonah did and why Jesus said he would be like Jonah.